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“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,

And the women come out to cut up what remains,

Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains

And go to your gawd like a soldier.”

• Rudyard Kipling.

Start of a new series of cartoons. The way things are going in Afghanistan I’ll have a hard time staying ahead of events. The two Taliban characters, Shuja and Hadeed, aren’t new; they’re from the early days of this strip.