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The mysterious David Petraeus.

Calvin Trillin

September 13, 2007

They’re deifying General Petraeus. He’s now, as in ex machina, the deus— The one who’s always able to gainsay us If we say staying there will never pay us. This treatment is a sign that should dismay us: It shows they’re trying once again to play us.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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