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“stop a moment and think about this part of [Gates’ testimony to the Senate]: “there must be an Afghan face on this war” … make no mistake, this is Empire-speak, American-style. It’s the language — behind which lies a deeper structure of argument and thought — that is essential to Washington’s vision of itself as a planet-straddling goliath. Think of that “Afghan face”/mask, in fact, as part of the flotsam and jetsam that regularly bubbles up from the American imperial unconscious” – Engelhardt