• The Western coalition forces withdrawal from Afghanistan is officially, “A tactical extraction”
“A tactical extraction” to,
Be somewhat indiscreet;
Is not so much a victory,
But more of a defeat.
The one objective understood,
To crush the poppy trade;
Was for expediency’s sake, ((Western troops took little action against poppy
farmers to avoid driving them to support the Taliban.))
Indefinitely delayed.
And profits from the opium,
(Although always denied)
Financed some who supposedly,
Were on the Western side. ((Supposedly friendly local warlords and Afghan officials, as well as the Taliban, profited from drug sales. Ex-President Karzai’s assassinated half-brother was suspected of such corruption.))
And this year in Afghanistan,
Despite much ‘do or die’;
The Helmand drug crop reached new heights,
In a new record ‘high’.
Thus poppy seeds aplenty for,
The bastards who have lied;
And poppy wreaths aplenty for,
The many who have died. ((Much is made of the death of Western soldiers but not of the twenty thousand Afghans who’ve died — many of whom perished as ‘collateral damage’.))