FILE - In this March 6, 2021 file photo, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, center, inspects an honor guard during the opening ceremony of the new legislative session of the Parliament, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan’s embattled president left the country Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, joining his fellow citizens and foreigners in a stampede fleeing the advancing Taliban and signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.
Abdullah Abdullah, his long-time rival who had twice buried his animosity to partner with Ghani in government, said that “God will hold him accountable” for abandoning the capital. Ghani’s style of rule was often characterized as cantankerous and arrogant, rarely heeding the advice of his government and often publicly berating those who challenged him.
“His downfall was his insistence on centralizing power at all costs and a stubborn refusal to bring more people under his tent,” said Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program at the U.S.-based Wilson Center. “Later on, his inability to develop a clear strategy to address the Taliban insurgency and perceptions that he was obstructing the peace process hurt him as well.”
In 2014 he fought his first presidential race. It was criticized as deeply flawed and allegations of widespread fraud threatened to destabilize the still fragile nation. Both Ghani and his rival Abdullah Abdullah claimed victory. In the end, the United States brokered a compromise and divided power between the two men and even created a new position of chief executive.
Where Ghengis Khan ? He'd clean the mess up in Afghanistan.
TerryGlavin But god will first have to find in which mansion he’s hiding out
The Taliban will surely Make Afghanistan Great Again
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What country gave him refuge?
Hey AP do you find normal that while the French Ambassador is running for his life, the only thing one of your journo find sensible to do is to show a contract to the benefit of her own career? You fired Emily Wilders while she has legitimate views, and now THIS?
Looted the Bank that Western Nations were giving to his Government hrw were not Independent They all were hired from Afghanistan were paid by the West & they turned the other cheek when it came NATO War crimes folks like Assange & Halle told truth MSNBC nytimes
And, I’m sure he took with him a chunk of American foreign aid.
imagine a name like abdullah abdullah, gosh
We can't blame President Ghani. 20 years were enough for America & NATO to empower Afghans while making the Taliban weaker. Amer succeeded in the former, but failed in the latter. The Taliban emerged stronger in these years to run riot. Amer lacked a strategic vision to prevail.
slip out the back jack.
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