Abdullah may be right, but what is his present strategy to try solve the problem? To pretend the campaign season is extant? Will he now flee a sinking ship, aka his country, or try to save it somehow? Perhaps his present tactic is to use his leverage to try to persuade Karzai to make reforms Abdullah wants. The election is over; the UN found sufficient fraud to force a runoff, but the fact of the matter was that Karzai got the most votes even by the UN tally. Therefore, in a sense the end result has been democratic; albeit, it is also legally illegitimate because by law a run off should've been held. The Vice President's expressed desire for all Afghans to be involved in the political process is perhaps ominous in the sense that the Karzai government has been viewed as corrupt precisely because it has institutionalized many corrupt individuals: warlords, the president's brother, and so forth. As a show of good faith in its supposed commitment to cleansing corruption, it should rid itself of the officials who are most responsible for such corruption. It didn't do so when Abdullah requested certain election officials guilty of fraud be removed from the government. I don't have high hopes it will do so from now hence; though we will see. There seem to be no good solutions to the Afghanistan problem. Leaving would be a big risk and so would staying. I suppose for simplicity's sake then, I am now for us leaving; although I feel very uncertain about what we should do. I wouldn't envy being in Obama's shoes.