Kabul under attack

This morning's news from the Afghanistan capital Kabul once again illustrates that far from controlling the rest of the country,coalition forces are unable to keep tabs on the Taliban in the fortified capital

It appears that in a targeted attack,a suicide bomber detonated explosives near Kabul's main shopping centre.Reports say that up to 17 people are dead with the Park Residence Hotel, popular with foreigners, was also close to the main blast.

As the attacks take place,an interesting piece in the Economist that suggests that the West is being played for fools by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Western diplomats have been talking tough about the need for thorough reform of the country’s rotten electoral system. Never again, the envoys said, would foreign governments pour cash into a machine that was controlled by the president,

yet once again the President has usurped them with the publication of a presidential decree.

The question once again is how much longer can these events go on?