"I owe the Afghan people an explanation for leaving Kabul abruptly on August 15th after Taliban unexpectedly entered the city. I left at the urging of the palace security who advised me that to remain risked setting off the same horrific street-to-street fighting the city had suffered during the Civil War of the 1990s. Leaving Kabul was the most difficult decision of my life, but I believed it was the only way to keep the guns silent and save Kabul and her 6 million citizens." - Ashraf Ghani, deserter and former president of Afghanistan.
ICHEOKU says the only thing the woke former president of Afghanistan, a captain who abandoned ship on the high seas with millions of Afghanis still in it and left to drown, can satisfactorily do now is to fall on his sword and commit harakiri. He was the commander in chief of Afghanistan National Army and he fled in the midst of battle, deserting his command post and left his troops and millions of Afghanistan citizens at the mercy of the invading Taliban.
Therefore, no amount of explanation or apology will be enough to rectify the damage which his cowardly decision to run away to safety, abandoning millions of Afghanistan citizens who he took oath of office to defend and protect from all enemies foreign and domestic, caused. What exactly is he trying to explain and to who; or that the Taliban is not in power today in Kabul and dictating the policy of the state, having instituted an Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan with an acute sharia law flavor. Who is he actually apologizing to and expecting to accept it?
Is he apologizing to the millions of Afghanistan women and girls who have lost their twenty year freedom to wear make up, dress up, acquire education and then hold gainful employment? Is his apology for the hundreds of thousands of people who hitherto settled in Afghanistan but who have now been forced to be evacuated for fear of the terror of the Taliban? Is his apology to the United States of America which supplied Afghanistan with $83 billion worth of ammunition, weapons, aircrafts including many helicopters, tanks and other military equipments which are now in the hands of the Taliban?
Who is this fella apologizing to really or is it to the investors and entrepreneurs who have put down roots in Afghanistan in the last twenty years, believing that the political stage of Afghanistan is safely secured to do business and thrive? Who exactly is this man making his apology to and expect to receive it, forgive him or forget what he did, the greatest betrayal of his people and other people living in Afghanistan. But he is a liberal Berkeley California educated fellow and possessed of a mindset that thinks first about self before others, thinking that apologizing later will suffice.
How about the thousands of Afghanistan people who lost their lives because they did not flee but chose to stand up and die fighting to save Afghanistan from the Taliban. How about the thousands of American troops and their allies who died fighting the Taliban with hope of saving Afghanistan from the Taliban? How about the trillions of dollars spent on Afghanistan in an attempt to plant and sustain democracy in Afghanistan? But no, only Ashraf Ghani's life is so precious and worth saving that he felt he cannot make necessary sacrifice, if need be, to save it.
ICHEOKU says anybody who accepts or even thinks about forgiving this man for what he did, needs to have his or her head examined. Were was his loyalty to his people when he ran away at their hour of greatest need of him to protect them from the Taliban. He was the center of gravity of democracy in Afghanistan but decided to let democracy collapse and die simply because of his selfishness and self centeredness. He convinced himself that his personal interest exceeds the greater interest of Afghanistan when he fled and here he is now, opening his mouth to offer an apology and give useless explanation.
For what use are they anyway if one may ask? Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani should stuff his apology in his you know where, the darkest place in his anatomy where the sun hardly ever reaches. That is where his apology belongs as nobody wants to hear it or needs it; his apology is not accepted. He is a sad commentary to manhood and he will forever live in the shame of his deserting his people when they needed him and his leadership most. His name will live in infamy for abandoning his Afghanistan people without a care in the world if the Taliban slaughtered them all. Shame on him.
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