I am burning your country.
How does that feel?
Not liking it one bit.
Tit for tit.
Tat for tat.
And all that.
Rock on.
War! huh-yeah
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing
Uh-huh
<Looking around in a shifty manner>…
You know too much.
He fucks you up, your Uncle Sam
He may not mean to, but he does.
He bills you for the war, a sham,
And adds some extra, just because.
I sympathize with your frustration,
ill-versed as it may be,
But while the US seems a hypocrite nation,
there are reasons —as you shall see.
The system of nations lacks authority,
or power to keep folks in line,
If you can’t trust your neighbours, there’s no place for charity,
and you fight just to stay fine.
When one nation gains power, the others all lose some
since “power” means power over others;
And power means security, so losing it hurts one,
you’d have all the power, had you your druthers.
So countries jostle for position and power,
and people die as they clash,
And some dominate some, which may make them sour,
or maybe just saves them some cash.
America’s the hegemon, which means that they run things,
so their states are always secure —
But they have to fight battles, and topple the odd king,
just so that they can be sure.
The other folks hate them, but really are just like them,
since they really want the same things:
Peace and security, and maybe even freedom,
and to be able to keep all their bling.
Into the mix, we add cooperation,
since life isn’t just about safety,
And people (like me!) have been working for much time,
but it takes time to change everything —see?
There’s no reason to think that it’s all a conspiracy,
it’s just rulers all have the same aims.
So the world today looks a lot like in history,
from Sparta to Delhi and up the Thames.
…and yes, if anybody is curious, that is in fact the worst poetry I’ve ever written. Thanks for asking.
Put a funky beat to it and I can hear Gil Scott-Heron saying that.
I’m… not quite sure how to respond to this.
You should…respond…sort of…like this…
It is OBVIOUS how a retort…to SUCH LOGICAL…smarter…
good buds…smart guys…
VERSION(S) of politics…
don’t you SEE it???
no no
Conventional politics of the World!
It is OBVIOUS…
yOU DISAGREE…
The OP is a woman who, iirc, is in her 60s. She tends to post in this style and often (as here) blames things on politics, men’s refusal to care for their daughters, and knees to the groin.
Ah, yes.
Now it feels like home.
Burma-Shave.
Even better if your hearing William Shatner reading the OP aloud it in your head.
CMC fnord!
It’s good for you, it’s good for me.
[…]
It shows the world that we’ve got stones
And carriers with fighter drones.
Oh, they’re interconnected all right. Damn homosexual conspiracy.
I blame their parents myself.
I bet Bill Clinton would have fucked a war.
Euphonius, posting the entire lyrics to a song like that is a violation of copyright. I’ve edited down to just the first verse to bring it into compliance with fair use.
(Also, I was totally going to post that.)
It was not the entire lyrics to the song. I particularly made sure that I did not post all of the lyrics. I left many of the lyrics out. There are many more lyrics that I did not include.
But thanks anyway.
Clinton’s problem was starting too few wars, not too many. Of course, it would have lead to that particularly hilarious phenomenon of 90s hippie republicans asking why a couple hundred american boys have to die to save a couple hundred thousand rwandans or bosnians.