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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Afghanistan says it has endured enough freedom

KABUL — Afghanistan is telling friends that it has decided to break up with long-time boyfriend Freedom.

“We’ve endured enough,” sources say the burka-clad beauty told gal-pals.

Neighbors say the southwest Asian nation has been quite vocal about its feelings. One friendly country, who would only give its first name as “Tajik,” claims the mountainous nation recently went off on its long-term relationship.

“Ok, fine,” Tajik quoted Afghanistan as saying. “Girls in schools was good — not great, because the laundry really started piling up, but good. And fast food is amazing. I was really sick of goat, to be honest. But the rest? No more.

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