"Miss Kabul"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3286 Elvis has left the building. At last.
...and as the band was playing him out, the Beltway chattering class
was in a mass conniption over all those poor, helpless collaborators
we left behind, and our lack of political will, and how, if we could
only piss away another trillion or two and tough it out until
mid-century, we could lick those mean old Taliban once and for all.
In the days leading up to Elvis' departure from the building, the
press was full of screeching and howling about how this wasn't going
to be like the evacuation of Saigon, honest it wasn't, seriously, for
real — and the louder they howled, the more convinced I was that it
would be like the evacuation of Saigon, except even more awesome.
I was 18 when I watched terrified Embassy flunkies being plucked off
the roof by the choppers on TV. The draft had officially ended around
1971 or so, but I still had to register. Got a ready-to-burn card and
everything. The day Saigon fell, I was about two weeks from graduating
high school, and classified 1-H.
Turn out the lights, the party's over...!
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"With Ghani Out Of Picture, Taliban Waltz Into Kabul Presidential
Palace", Press TV 08.15.2021
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2021/08/16/664520/With-Ghani-out-of-picture,-Taliban-waltz-into-Kabul-presidential-palace "'This Is Not Saigon': Blinken Defends US Evacuations From Kabul", Al
Jazeera 08.15.2021
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/15/this-is-not-saigon-blinken-defends-us-evacuations-from-kabul Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons:
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