Pentagon to send troops to evacuate embassy staff from Afghanistan

Steven Welzer
1 min readAug 12, 2021

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https://www.axios.com/us-embassy-kabul-evacuation-troops-airport-be7a9dbd-0921-40db-8852-190697a7c8af.html

Shades of Saigon 1975.

Pentagon: When will you ever learn?

Where have all the flowers gone? Long time passing.
Where have all the flowers gone? Long time ago.
Where have all the flowers gone? Young girls picked them every one.
When will you ever learn? When will you ever learn?

Where have all the young girls gone? Long time passing.
Where have all the young girls gone? Long time ago.
Where have all the young girls gone? Gone to husbands every one.
When will you ever learn? When will you ever learn?

Where have all the husbands gone? Long time passing.
Where have all the husbands gone? Long time ago.
Where have all the husbands gone? Gone to soldiers every one.
When will you ever learn? When will you ever learn?

Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time passing.
Where have all the soldiers gone? Long time ago.
Where have all the soldiers gone? Gone to graveyards every one.
When will you ever learn? When will you ever learn?

Where have all the graveyards gone? Long time passing.
Where have all the graveyards gone? Long time ago.
Where have all the graveyards gone? Gone to flowers every one.
When will you ever learn? When will you ever learn?

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Steven Welzer
Steven Welzer

Written by Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.

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