KABUL (Reuters) - Over dinner in Kabul one evening this week, the conversation among a group of officials turned darkly from Saturday's run-off round in Afghanistan's presidential election to the stunning march of Sunni Islamist rebels towards Baghdad.
In many ways, the smooth election of a successor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai would be a triumph for a war-worn country that has never known a democratic transfer of power.
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