The Question It’s not, you say, an escalation. No, you insist it’s called a surge. But sending troops is sending troops, sir. So how, sir, do the two diverge?
The Follow-up, After the President Explains the Difference Between a Surge and an Escalation Some soldiers in the surge you send there To obfuscate your own mistake Will surely die. So in their case, sir, What difference does the difference make?
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”