Whistling Past the Graveyard in the Hindu Kush
4 min readAug 17, 2021
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“The difference between genius and stupidity,” says an African proverb, “is that genius has limits.”
I’m a country boy with limited imagination, so I thought the 1975 pictures of Vietnamese on the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon fighting over seats on the last helicopters out, clinging to the skids while being…