Richard Holbrooke, former ambassador to the United Nations back in the Clinton days, doesn’t mince words when describing the Bush Administration’s efforts to eliminate the poppy crop in Afghanistan: “the program, which costs around $1 billion a year, may be the single most ineffective program in the history of American foreign policy. It’s not just…
Tag: Mark Twain
Calling All Twain Scholars! Calling All Twain Scholars!
Early on in Huckleberry Finn, Jim tells Huck “You wants to keep ‘way fum de water as much as you kin, en don’t run no resk, ‘kase it’s down in de bills dat you’s gwyne to git hung.” The words have a wondrously ominous ring, but what precisely did Twain intend them to mean, and…