But the rags came back, the very next day

In private, top Afghan and American officials have begun to voice increasingly grim assessments of the resurgent Taliban threat, most notably in a previously undisclosed transcript of a late-October meeting of the Afghan National Security Council.

The rags came back and wouldn't stay away  
Ahla Akbar, a little ditty
But the rags came back


OK,OK maybe the problem is environmental, who the hell wants to live in the Afghan mountains except nutty people.