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The Transformation of Afghanistan

Calvin Trillin

August 24, 2021

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.”


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