During his first visit to Washington as Afghanistan's president, Ashraf Ghani said everything his infuriating predecessor, Hamid Karzai, did not. Where Mr Kar-zai could sound insultingly ungrateful, Mr Ghani heaped thanks on his American hosts for the roughly $1 trillion spent in Afghanistan since 2001, and the more than 2,200 American lives lost-even, at a Pentagon ceremony, addressing some of the families of those who died. He emphasised a determination to crack down on corruption. And he won praise from President Barack Obama for having "taken on the mantle of commander-in-chief in a way that we have not seen in the past from an Afghan president."
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