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And the epitaph drear,
A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East.
When Kipling's only son John was killed in battle in France in 1915, Kipling saw things still more differently. He wrote:
"If any question why we died, tell them, because our fathers lied."
Sadly, Kipling's aphorism applies as aptly to the roughly 2,400 US and 1,200 "coalition" troops killed in the latest March of Folly into Afghanistan -- not to mention many times as many Afghans.
Still more sadly, although President Joe Biden personally knows, all too well, the generals who lied, he could not hold them accountable even if he had the courage to try. MICIMATT (the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Intelligence-Media-Academia-Think-Tank) complex is in charge.
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