Tired Poem We’ve traveled to foreign land before. Wiping salty sweat from the eyes that will witness faithless crimes and the ears that will hear innocent screams and the fingers that with one bend will end lives. We’ve invaded these homes before. Arriving in helicopters to play the Domino game and leaving in them to go back to the states only to have your loved ones look over you in a wooden box. We’ve cried these tears before. Letting go of our sons and daughters yet again in hopes that there is truth in the recruiting officers promises, while loosing a minute of sleep for every life lost because of them. We’ve swallowed these lies before. Attaching ourselves to the media’s strings and becoming a chorus of puppets who won’t speak out, finding silence especially hard when My Lai Massacre-like events are reported. We’ve used these excuses before. Explaining that Communism will indeed spread and terrorists will in fact bomb again, keeping the nation on Red alert to birth fear and hatred that is necessary for war. We’ve fought this war before. Our nation has again been divided, no longer by Hawks and Doves but simply The Cruel and The Peaceful. As smiles and nakedness once acted as protest, we now join together to walk with our banners and raise up our signs. Dylan’s question fails to be answered for the cannon balls still fly, people still die, and until that wind blows on through our Administration we will continue to oppose war, because we’ve sung that song before.
First, I liked this poem a lot, because I see a lot of truth in it. I just wish I knew what "dylans question" was. Second, cooloner, one could argue that securing oil is definitely defending the American Way, because without [cheap] oil the American Way cannot operate in any way similar to how it is now.
I'm not convinced that Vietnam going commie was ever a great danger. You know, we lost the war but the domino effect never really happened. Though, the secret war in Laos probably had an impact, and Cambodia did go commie... Though no communist contry were ever TRULY communist. I'm also not convinced that capitalism necessarily means wars must occur. But, this isn't the place to discuss this issue. Sorry to HowlForever for hijacking her thread.
