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Aug 2021
Lawrence Hall
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                   Yet Another White Sahib Dismisses the Dead

             "This is not abandonment; this is not an evacuation.”

         -State Department Spokesman Ned Price, 12 August 2021

While Afghan heads, like American guarantees
Roll in the dust of Kandahar’s grim streets
Our diplomats demonstrate their expertise
Executing again their skillful retreats

An elegant man at a microphone
Unctuously soothing the doubtful press
Denies that our client state has been overthrown
In a futile game of colonial chess

The dead cannot argue what Ned Price might say -
It seems their blood has blotted his resume

['Not an Evacuation,' Insists State Department as Pentagon Sends 3,000 Troops to Evacuate U.S. Personnel by Spencer Brown (townhall.com)]
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