A rough beast returns
""As President Joe Biden watched Kabul descend into hell, did he think of his beloved William Butler Yeats?
He is the poet Biden recited as a teen to conquer his stutter. And Biden has quoted Yeats before while talking about the Middle East.
“The Second Coming” eerily sprang to life in the president’s helter-skelter exit from Afghanistan, a land that still prizes falconry and falcons flying in widening gyres."
read column by Maureen Dowd