Insanity (poem)
Inspired by this quote
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein
Insanity
Policing the world
U.S. takes up arms
Never regarding
Whomever they harm
Ulterior motives
Cleverly disguised
Our allies no more
The U.S. despised
The economy’s fragile
Barely recovered
An internal threat
Soon is discovered
A war that is useless
Wasted money spent
Fought overseas
Without Congress consent
Wars of the past
Have given us gain
Selling munitions
No goal to obtain
Now we fight wars
To enforce our ideals
To control prices
And make shady deals
After destruction
A new threat takes power
With every conquest
World relations sour
What would it take
For the nonsense to end?
For troops to be used
Mostly to defend?
The conflict in Syria
- Syria: The propaganda blitz
More than a decade after the war in Iraq, have global media outlets learnt to look beyond the spin?
War - Deja Vu
- Deja vu in Syria - Listening Post - Al Jazeera English
As the media talks of WMDs and calls for intervention, have journalists already forgotten the lessons from Iraq?
© 2013 Eric Niehoff
