Karzai caves

I can only imagine the conversation between Sen. Kerry and Pres. Karzai before this announcement: "Kawzai Agrees to Nov. 7 Runoff."
Afghanistan is heading towards some sort of "constitutional coup" in my opinion... the US gov't is obviously looking for some legalistic way to push Karzai out of the loop. At least we're not having him shot in the back of an APC like our last client in a counterinsugency.