War On Terminology

 

When listening to metaphors
The atrocity didn’t sound too bad
As it was ‘coming to a head’
In the city of Baghdad
I was offered swift recourse
From my saddened doubting thoughts
As I heard the mantra’s from detractors
Of objectors to this war
Mollify collateral with 9/11
Re: inaction
A quantifiable distraction
With fear and loathing at the fore
Now ‘we’ had only waged this war
When they’d waged war on ‘we’
So while they moved in the contractors
I was thinking, euphemistically,
‘A counter-war
Protects home shores
From further tragedy
Anti-terror laws
Might secure us more’
Then hearing the analogy
Of statistics and logistics
Made it all less realistic
It qualified the holocaust
In terms far more simplistic
Less permutations more regulation
Common sense sank in at last
And my feelings of remorse
Drifted off in sweet placation
With the memory of victories from the past

Reviews

[Rick Puetter]

Dear spence,

So being crude, if "bullshit baffles brains", what hope to we have when "spinmeisters" start to weave their magic. But then propaganda has been with us through the ages. We just need to have the fortitude to see through the rhetoric to the underlying truths. Now both sides of the isle in the US Congress have been guilty of this. However recently our personal freedoms have been under attack and the reputation and trustworthiness of the US has been called into question. I am not easily placated by retoric on these issues. Unquestionable damage has been done that will take who knows how long from which to recover.

Nicely done, spence. You show us the dangers quite clearly.

Best regards,

Rick

[Valerie Dean Belew]

Yes, yes, yes. I have wondered during the George Bush era, that if we are going to give up all of our freedoms in order to protect our freedom, what exactly are we protecting? Very well written, and I believe you are saying what I just wrote above, or something along those lines. V

[Katherine Wyatt]

"collateral damage" and other such terms sound so nice and tidy...Another brilliant piece Spence..