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Hurrah! Washington's Pointless Sojourn in the Graveyard of Empires Is Finally Over

This weekend’s momentous events cry-out for a reformulation of Earnest Hemingway’s famous five word quip in “The Sun Also Rises”. Per his description of the route to bankruptcy: How did the dismal Afghan outpost of Washington’s Potemkin Empire collapse? “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.” Less than three months ago, Afghanistan’s puppet President, Ashraf Ghani, inadvertently crystalized 20-years worth of lies, delusions, misdirection and malfeasance by Imperial Washington’s policy-makers and proconsuls in response to a question from the press: Q: How long can your government last without US support? A: Forever. Yet by midday Sunday Ghani had fled the presidential palace … Continue reading → ....

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Hurrah! Washington's Pointless Sojourn in the Graveyard of Empires Is Finally Over

This weekend’s momentous events cry-out for a reformulation of Earnest Hemingway’s famous five word quip in “The Sun Also Rises”. - David Stockman for Antiwar.com Original ....

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