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Poetry as a Weapon of War in Afghanistan

March 25, 2011  |   According to two new reports by a leading Afghanistan watcher at the Naval Postgraduate School, "the Taliban blow us away" in getting its message out to the Afghan public by using poetry and music -- means the United States does not understand or take into account.
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Jeffrey Brown

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Correspondent Jeffrey Brown covers all things art and culture in these online exclusive reports.
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