
Nguồn tin: nguontinviet.com WHAT would Afghanistan look like now if Ashraf Ghani, not Hamid Karzai, had been the Anglophone Pushtun promoted by America, back in 2001, to lead the country? Afghanistan’s new president, a frail figure in white salwar kameez, grins, eyes twinkling, tantalised by the suggestion. “Let’s not discuss what we cannot change,” he then says, seated, for his first interview as president, in the shoddy grandeur of his palace in Kabul. So let Banyan attempt an answer.On the basis of his first month in office and, more important, his two years as finance minister in the government of warlords and technocrats formed after the Taliban’s fall, Afghanistan would be in much better shape than it is. That is not only because Mr Ghani...