I 've just had the pleasure of posting Russ's poem, Slicing Enlightenment to his IWVPA Index and was struck by the validity of his prophetic point of view; a view that I share and about which I wrote on the day that your President and the British Prime Minister made public the declaration of War against Saddam. I sent a copy to Mr Bush, Mr Blair, and Mr Howard (the Australian Prime Minister) and received a response (probably a form response, but a response none-the-less) from each of them. Hereunder is that poem:

RESPONSIBILITY!

He wallows, as a wild beast, in the living room of civilization!
And with rhetoric worthy of Hitler and Stalin,
calls out and faces down the world - they who refuse to understand.
A glint of evil in the eye of the demigod who holds the rifle;
A rifle with a muzzle that, at the same time, he aims at the naïve world,
and at the people imprisoned in his personal dominion.

But sighted nations see that he demands a ransom be paid in moral blindness.
Blackness oozes from his heart and from the lands of these ancient people
whom he holds hostage against the golden contracts of the morally bankrupt.

An Eagle and a Lion shall direct sanity in this insane world.
Peace and Freedom will reign again in this ancient land,
And Babylon shall once more arise in this cradle of civilization.

But those not willing to pay the cost for freedom and righteousness,
shall accrue the cost of destruction…
… and that destruction shall be theirs and their children’s.

Copyright March 1, 2003 by Anthony W. Pahl

Contributed by Bushranger on November 24, 2006 at 11:58 PM in Anthony Pahl, Islamism Delenda Est, Poetry | Permalink

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