US political blogger Glenn Reynolds has written his third column for Guardian Unlimited:
John Tammes, a reader and US army major, was kind enough to email me a photo showing Afghan men waiting in line to vote.
Mr Tammes writes: "These men are waiting to vote in Dasht-e Robat (Parwan province). They were very good natured about waiting and they seemed to be proud of what they were doing."
So they should have been: despite threats of death and destruction from the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaida, they had turned out to vote. The election may not have been perfect - the UN apparently needs a better ink supplier - but international monitors pronounced it fair.
As a result, it is getting rather little attention in the western media - because if Afghanistan is obviously not the "quagmire" people have been calling it for three years, Bush must have been doing something right.
Read on here. You can read the views of leftwing blogger Markos Moulitsas here.
