article_snippet: Lawmakers have been critical about the lengthy U.S. troop presence in America's longest war, wasteful spending in Afghanistan and were stung by former President Hamid Karzai's anti-American rhetoric.
article_snippet: President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani   admitted that decades of war have resulted in high levels of fraud and graft in Afghanistan and promised to eliminate corruption.
article_snippet: That's a tall order for Afghanistan.
article_snippet: The national unity government that President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani   runs with chief executive Abdullah Abdullah has not yet seated a full cabinet, and some of the country's 30-plus provinces are still run by acting governors.
article_snippet: the country recently had a $500 million budget shortfall and domestic revenues missed targets by 26 percent, forcing the U.S. to step in in recent months to help cover the fiscal gap.
article_snippet: More than a third of Afghans live below the poverty line and the nation's vast mineral resources remain virtually untapped.
article_snippet: Afghanistan also is not at peace, and Ghani's efforts to lure the Taliban to reconciliation talks have not yet been fruitful.
article_snippet: The reason: President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani  's not Karzai.