Kurt Vonnegut wrote this letter to the New York Times on March 27, 1991.
To the Editor:
A woman I had dinner with the other night said to me that the atmosphere in this country since the Persian Gulf war is like that at a party in a beautiful home, with everybody being polite and bubbly. And there is this stink coming from somewhere, getting worse all the time, and nobody wants to be the first
to mention it.
KURT VONNEGUT
