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Afghanistan burning, though most is not,
Having surrendered without a shot,
Their President is their “Sheamus a Chac”
Who fled and flew without looking back,
The west wrings its hands, what can they do,
As they did to the Kurds when they were no more use too,
The flames and the smoke and the dust will subside,
The living bury the dead where hope itself has died.<\/p>\r\n

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People fleeing Afghanistan this week…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Afghanistan burning, though most is not,Having surrendered without a shot,Their President is their “Sheamus a Chac”Who fled and flew without looking back,The west wrings its hands, what can they do,As they did to the Kurds when they were no more use too,The flames and the smoke and the dust will …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[992,3675,1,31],"tags":[2674,2368,4457,991],"class_list":["post-5021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-uncategorized","category-war-on-terror","tag-afghan","tag-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-burning","tag-taliban","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-1iZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1232,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/god-called-me-george\/","url_meta":{"origin":5021,"position":0},"title":"God Called Me: “George!”","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"5th July 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Bush: God told me to invade Iraq Ref: President 'revealed reasons for war in private meeting' By Rupert Cornwell 7 October 2005 http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/bush-god-told-me-to-invade-iraq-509925.html President George Bush has claimed he was told by God to invade Iraq and attack Osama bin Laden's stronghold of Afghanistan as part of a divine mission\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Afghanistan"","block_context":{"text":"Afghanistan","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/war-on-terror\/afghanistan\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2766,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/flying-a-drone-in-merlin-woods\/","url_meta":{"origin":5021,"position":1},"title":"Flying a Drone in Merlin Woods","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"27th May 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Flying a drone in the Merlin Woods in Galway today, I thought of when I watched the movie \"Eye in the Sky\" a few weeks back and how folk fear drones in Afghanistan and Pakistan and such places... 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