Afghanistan: John Brown's body is not in his grave

Bob Dylan recorded this in 1962 but it wasn't released until decades later. By then there were many more John Browns. And we are producing them in quantity in Afghanistan.

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Wow - messages don't get more powerful than this. Thanks.