from
Tomas Avenarius
In retrospect, it appears to be the tragic-comic ending to the life of a failed statesman. Long before he became president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani had co-authored a book: “Fixing failed states”. The man who thought he knew in theory how to put crumbling states back together was now driven from the government palace and homeland by his enemies. What Ghani is leaving behind is just such a “failed state” – with a future as an “Islamic Emirate” of the Taliban or as a stage for a new civil war.