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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.
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A peaceful execution of power.
KABUL, Afghanistan — As the last American forces leave Afghanistan this summer, the war-torn nation is looking forward to peace, said the incoming Taliban Minister of Public Executions.
“For decades, our people have suffered under the scourge of war,” said Shahabuddin Delawar, behind a towering stack of papers listing names of people who need to be publicly executed. “We’ve lost generations to foreign hegemony, generations that should have been beheaded in soccer stadiums by our rightful government. We are just looking forward to picking up where we left off in 2001.”
Delawar then shook his head as he considered the stack of names in front of him.
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