Ashraf Ghani

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"This is the worst job on Earth"

- Ashraf Ghani

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"Ghani is perhaps best known now as a man who fled his presidential palace with $169 million. Even before an official denial from the former president, questions around the logistics of transporting that amount of cash cast doubt on the claims. Still, regardless of what actually happened when Ghani fled Kabul, there is a truthfulness to the image of the failed leader stealing from the Afghan people."

- Ashraf Ghani

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"Ashraf Ghani embodies the degree to which modern neoliberal democracy is a façade for the ruling kleptocracy."

- Ashraf Ghani

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"No matter what happened in his final moments as president, Ghani was a failure at putting into practice what he had spent his entire life talking about: making Afghanistan a prosperous nation. While he was a darling of Western politicians and prestigious NGOs, he was a leader completely inept and out of touch with the realities of a country he spent most of his adult life avoiding."