This article appears in the December 8, 2023 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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Afghanistan
Look at this land of rampant peak on peak,
With mass on mass, ridges of rising rock,
The highest passes lonely, hard, and bleak!
Far down below, the people meet to talk;
So small and far—one cannot hear a word,
The Hindu Kush stares down on them unmoved.
And yet it looks as though they have been stirred
To action by a concept they have proved—
Perhaps they’re speaking now of human powers,
To find in peace what they have lost in war,
To seed the desert, cross the land in hours,
Greet the East, and reach the sea once more.
They look up at the peaks, as if to show
How far beyond the mountains thought can go.
