Interventions
Threat level red, are you terrified yet?
Or do you think again, like a lonely man on his death bed?
Any danger we’re in is the result of a combination
Of stupidity and treason, we fail to use reason
When we forget that war is always cruel
And treason is when they trade our soldier’s lives for fossil fuels
No mention of what caused the grievance
We sleep better at night
Assuming that religious doctrine is the reason
But I find it hard to believe this
Religion is a tool, warped and distorted by both sides
The same way that gang culture is either demonised or glorified
As it flows here through the schools
But there’s no glory
Recruiters don’t tell them the whole story
And we don’t get to hear it either
Cultures collapse into the ether
Sectarian violence has a clear global dimension
It’s human nature for us to feel closer to our brethren
Than to anyone else
And the less that you have, the more it can be important
To showcase your support
If it’s what your parents died for
Or someone else you know
Or at least that’s what you’re told
Many of us know someone on the front line
Miles away from home
But it’s the same shit, different day over on the other side
A likely mould; a young person willing to lose their life
With little else to do and nowhere else to go
Sign them up, tell them they’re just going with the flow
A solid job, and though your colleagues are reminding you of home
You’re convinced that you’re protecting your neighbours and kids
From these strange sounding , weird looking invalids
But this argument is invalid
Wage violence and their resolve will only grow
Wage war and it’s all this generation will ever know
Think about how you feel when you see us attacked
Does it make you want to sit back and lay down your arms?
Or is the best recruitment tool
When your enemy causes harm upon your legacy?
If so, then how is attacking going to stop them?
It’s upsetting, realising what the two sides have in common
Two groups of militant leaders happy to play politics
Spending trillions on wars that are child on child
There are always vocal minorities who want to battle often
But it’s people on the ground that suffer, no way to soften the blow
The reality is right there in the coffins
The long wooden boxes, draped in the flag that we all know
Deaths that didn’t need to happen
Wars we didn’t need to have for show
Burning oil to find oil, that’s the hubris of this parade
You’ve got to spend money to make money
But we’ve made no net-gains
From this eleven-year sand capade
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June 15, 2012 at 11:43 -
Thanks, Criminonymous. That is really sad, but it made me think. More often than not we go to War while not knowing what it is that we will actually prevent. Poland was a case in point. No one knew what Hitler would do, or even what we prevented him from doing. Although we do have a damned good idea. Was it right to lose so many young men in the process? And how many young German men did we kill? In the end there was no real choice, we would have to have done it eventually. In Hitler’s case it was apparently about Land and Aryan Domination, and he had to be stopped by outside forces.
So what’s the difference with Oil? I really do not know, except that The West seems to lie about these things. But then your average Soldier might kick up a fuss if he was told that it was all about the petrol in someone’s Gas Tank, or their Central Heating. I very much doubt that Western Governments care about who dies in the process. I would like them better if they did. But it is all Cannon Fodder in the end. The only difference these days is that Soldiers volunteer. Civilians rarely do. -
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June 15, 2012 at 18:54 -
A nice scattergun approach to taking down the political establishment and the “defence” industry cartel. Trouble is the Sheeple will keep falling for the same scaremongering tactics. Even as we read this poem the left (the war hating, peace loving left) are clamouring for military intervention in Syria on humanitatian grounds.
They are too stupid to look at what is going on in Egypt where Mubark’s anoited successors have just staged a coup to prevent the establishment of an Islamic theocracy that would have been totally hostile to the western nations that helped them gain power.
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