The irresponsibility of foreign policy

Gadhafi and Hussein are gone, Assad is in the sights,

as Western money flows to any dog that’s in the fight

The enemy of our enemy, a lesson never learned,

the Taliban began with Western cash their jihad earned,

for the Jihadi’s were the perfect tool to fight godless communism,

the peoples needs ignored in their narrow cold war vision,

and just to give the Russians a little taste of Vietnam

a country once progressive was turned to a medieval land,

and still the money flows to those we’re told that we should fear,

funding terror whilst secular heads are made to disappear

 

The demon that was birthed out of the ruins of Iraq

was midwifed by the West who lay the fuel down for the spark

Years of sanctions, tonnes of bombs, and a brutal occupation,

the military sacked, sectarian violence, a volatile situation

The destruction of a country does not equate with being free,

and what good is democracy when there’s no security ?

 

Libya fell to ruins, now North Africa’s in the grip

of the same Jihadi forces that the West had helped equip,

and what has really been achieved by Gadhafi’s demise ?

A country turned to chaos, and a region de-stabilised,     

a land of wreck and ruin due to narrow aims and views,

a people gone from an iron grip to a freedom of abuse

 

And now the record skips again, and history repeats,

countries led to ruin for the aims of the elites

Dominance and power are the need for which they strive,

Geo-politics before concern for peoples lives

Syria’s just a chess square in a hegemonic plan,

another domino to fall in the march towards Tehran

 

The talking heads parade effects, whilst omitting the cause

of the human flood that’s pounding against most of Europe’s shores

Fleeing war and persecution whilst the borders slowly close,

and the preference for non-muslims ensures the hatred quickly grows,

even though the Shia are apostates in the eyes

of the Caliphate, and suffer what that death sentence implies

 

For borders lie around our hearts as they do around these lands,

and we now find a criteria must be met for helping hands

Forget the pointing fingers, we need responsibility

taken by the Western world for their foreign policy,

and we, the people with sandy heads, must take some of the blame

for the bombs dropped with our taxes, and the death dealt in our names

 

Reviews

[Against All Authority]

This is -- difficult for me to find the right word -- brilliant!

It is very difficult these days, if not near impossible, to come across literature that is conscious of the socio-political issues, and the devastation that the ruling class is imposing on the world.

Amazing flow and rhythm - love this!