RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: HISTORY
The Long War
It began with the will to war
by a president whose claim to office
was as suspect as his intellect
It began with a lie as so many wars do
Afghanistan provided safe haven to AQ
(the CIA contracted and armed AQ
implanting them in the Afghan war
to defeat the Russians)
The truth is the first casualty of war
Journalism is often the second
We’ve carried the lies of war
for twenty years and carry them still
We fought to end terror
We fought to avenge 911
We fought for the Afghan women
We fought for democracy
When everyone knows we fought
to prove we were the biggest bully
on the Mideast block
We fought to prove we were badder
than the Russians
We fought because we needed a war
to test our weapons
to clear the docket for new weapons
to test our advanced technology
to show the world what shock
and awe looks like
in the flesh
We moved on to Iraq
but we forgot to move out
Afghanistan became an afterthought
A deadly wicked afterthought
It was a war we could not win
It was a war we should never have fought
We never had the hearts of the people
An invader never will
You cannot win the people
with death and destruction
We lost the war before it began
and we’ve been losing ever since
The bully always loses
in the end
