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To Old Europe From the Last Remaining Superpower: A Polite Request for Help in Iraq

Well, yes, we may have used the word "appease." We may have called you weenies who munch cheese. But now we're asking nicely for your aid--

Calvin Trillin

September 11, 2003

Well, yes, we may have used the word “appease.” We may have called you weenies who munch cheese. But now we’re asking nicely for your aid– To help clean up the awful mess we’ve made. We’ll run the show, of course. We always do: We can’t take orders from the likes of you.

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


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