A Man without Reason

Cherry

By smokejack

Wed, 02 Dec 2015
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Today in Parliament

A man without reason

Wants to take the country to war

He has no plan of action

But he says our country

Will be safe

And secure

 

This same man

Has slashed jobs

In the police

In the armed services

He’s closed fire stations

And Ambulance stations

He’s reduced medical staff

To wafer thin provision

 

Still

Bombing a foreign country

To keep his kind pure

Will keep us all

Safe and secure

 

Today in Parliament

A man who thinks

He was born to rule

Because he came from money

And went to the right school

Will take pleasure

In killing thousands

Of innocent people

 

He’ll accuse the peaceful

Of sympathising with terrorists

As he organises an air attack

On people he cannot see

People he’ll never know

This man will ignore

Arguments against his plan

He has his soundbites and quotes

 

Besides

Bombing a foreign country

Will keep his kind pure

Whilst he tells the rest of us

We’ll be safe and secure

 

 

Today a man in Parliament

Will take the country to war

The media will be his chorus

You’re either with us

Or against us

There are no more questions

Do not ask where it all began

Or who invaded who

 

Do not think for yourself

Believe all that you read

On the six o clock news

Do not notice the graphics

Of tanks and planes

But be proud of the smart bombs

Who know exactly who to strike

This is war what’s not to like?

 

Remember

Bombing a foreign country

On the orders of a rich elite

That these are people

Who would kill us all in our sleep

 

©JMcN2015

 

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Comments

Submitted by loquaciousicity on

You mention several times 'bombing a foreign country'... you've forgotten the apposite word 'illegally' as in 'illegally bombing a foreign country'...

why?

Because there is no UN Resolution sanctioning such an action, and there is no permission/request from the UN recognised Syrian regime for such action...

Anyway, an insightful poem!! Worth more than thewell deserved cherries!!

Submitted by smokejack on

hi Terry

 

Thanks for reading and commenting on this poen, I really appreciate it. I agree your point about illegality of bombing and this was kind of my point in describing a man who doesn't care about legality when war can be so profitable!!

Cameron bombed Libya and abandoned the 'rebels' he promised to support when he realised he was out of his depth. A very dangerous man is at the heart of a very dangerous govt in my view.

Submitted by loquaciousicity on

Hi  Smokejack,

What you say is completely true...

My point was that (at least in the parts of the debate I heard today) the opponents of bombing have used several secondary (though important) arguments against bombing, but haven't even mentioned the most important... it's illegality... the fact of its illegality seems to me to render the need for a debate empty, inane... unless of course the UK is casting law and order to the wind...

hmmm... I guess they've been doing just that for the last decade or two...

Submitted by EB on

Your poem tells it like it is, and makes us realise it's so not up to us. We're ALL, wherever we are, in BIG trouble. 

Submitted by Kurt Rellians on

I am under the impression that the UN recently requested states to act militarily against ISIS, as a terrorist organisation in both Iraq and Syria.
If the UN says its alright to attack, then surely it must be 'legal'?
Next question - is the UN the arbiter of legality anyway? It is an organisation of member states, some of whom have not agreed on many matters for many years. For example Russia and China have often prevented western nations from getting their resolutions passed. Also the US has often prevented the rest of the world from exercising resolutions against Israel.
Syria (Assad government) has been accused of chemical weapons use, against civilians and also general bombing against civilian areas. Does this allow them to claim that other states may not be militarily involved on what used to be their territory?

Its a good poem Smokejack, and it is true that it seems too easy to just send in the bombers to this godforsaken country, but I would like to ask what would you do if you were Prime Minister and were supposed to be responsible for reducing the threat of Islamic State in the world and in Britain? Would you open peace talks with them, or send aid workers to ask if we can help them? Perhaps a few journalists to find their point of view out and make sense of it? Or would you just ignore them and let them build up bigger armies and produce bigger weapons while they make loads of money out of the oilfields they have conquered and become stronger, and able to fund even more elaborate terrorist attacks on democracies where freedom of speech and behaviour is allowed?

Submitted by smokejack on

Hi Kurt

Not sure this is the place to try and address all your points - my issue with Govt wanting to bomb Syria is that is not to save any group of people. Nobody in Govt or media is prepared to address the issue of how ISIS became so powerful - US/Israel/Turkey/Saudi have all been linked to arming/funding/training/supporting ISIS - There's also the issue of GENIE/Golan Heights and oil resources that Syria has and the deal that Assad signed with Iran which seems to have prompted bombings. Then there's Assad's treatment of is own citizens when civil war ensued. If I was PM I wouldn't be selling weapons to regimes like Saudi which Cameron hasdone and these weapons are slaughtering Yemeni people. Cameron is tied to Israel and in my view he is as much a war criminal as Blair -neoliberals pushing a corporate agenda to suit a tiny elite that appears to be part of the appalling TTIP agenda. Cameron left Libya after a sortie I wouldn't trust him if showed me his family tree.

Ultimately war wil solve nothing and modern warfare seems to be nothing more than a live trade fairfor a handful of arms dealing ghouls.

That's my view and I won't be commenting further because this is not the place for such a detailed discussion.  Thanks for commenting. Best wishes.

Submitted by Kurt Rellians on

Thanks for responding Smokejack. Interesting points you have made, to be discussed or considered in other places and times!