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No Country for Young Men as Old Men Play for Time: The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable   : Information Clearing House

No Country for Young Men as Old Men Play for Time: The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable   : Information Clearing House

No Country for Young Men as Old Men Play for Time: The End in Afghanistan is Totally Predictable

By Dave Llindorff

May 23, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- John Kerry, back before he was a pompous windsurfing Senate apologist for American empire, back when he wore his hair long and was part of a movement of returned US military veterans speaking out against the continuation of the Vietnam War, famously asked the members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at a hearing, “How do you ask a man to be the last one to die for a mistake?”

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