Imperial America

And so it happens again.
Leaders so caught up in righteous rhetoric
So intolerant of any position not in lock-step
With their own infallible logic
That we must again send our children off to slaughter.

The super power now prepares to bludgeon
The third world tyrant.
We will use our twenty-first century technological
Marvels of death and blow these goat herders back
To the stone age –

We will show the wrong thinking nations of the world,
How to deal with a threat to imperial America.
Who are they to tell us to wait and talk.
We who have the power and the will.
Doesn’t might after all make right?

And what if we do dismantle the structures of peace
and security built up over the last sixty years.
They haven’t served OUR purposes, they haven’t
Furthered OUR goals. Our perfect goals.
Our splendid vision of truth and justice for all the peoples of the world.

Our old allies muddled in their thinking.
are no longer with us, they have voted against us.
Alas, they too will have to conform. They too will have to lay down
Their arms at the altar of imperial America.

Bill – March 18th, 2003 – Prelude to War
On the occasion of bludgeoning the United Nations.