The Coventry Carol is the only Christmas music I can hear this year while my country withholds $9 billion from Afghanistan and families suffer and will starve: “Then woe is me, poor child, for thee.”
Maureen O’Brien O’Reilly, Seattle
Afghanistan: Frozen assets, suffering children
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