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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)]