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A Two-Pronged Approach to the Afghan People

By night our missiles rain on them, By day we drop them bread. They should be grateful for the food-- Unless, of course, they're dead.

Calvin Trillin

October 11, 2001

By night our missiles rain on them, By day we drop them bread. They should be grateful for the food– Unless, of course, they’re dead.

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


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