Cup of Afghan Tea

It's considered rude to refuse so I will take a couple of sips.

"It may turn out to be three cups of bitter tea" April 26, 2011|By H.D.S. Greenway

The book about building schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan filled a deep need in the American psyche — to be, and be seen as, doing good, even in the midst of war.... 

These are times of disillusion.

I blame newspapers.

Our far-flung armies seem endlessly bogged down in Afghanistan, and by no means out of Iraq, and the brave promise of a better world through military intervention has proven to have feet of clay.... 

Must be all the blood that has soaked into them.

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Yeah, that was bitter.  Boston Globe bulls*** always is.