Afghan Taliban fighters and villagers at a gathering to celebrate the US-Taliban peace deal.(Wali Sabawoon / NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Fanatics terrorized the Afghan people.
For twenty years we fought there in a war.
So what’s it going to be like when we’ve finished?
Well, pretty much just like it was before.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”