Brad

Trench Warfare

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> Can you tell me who is good and who is bad ? > The ancient "we and they" divides us artificially. > Yet for the children of New York and Baghdad, > only one equation counts: their shared humanity. > > Woe upon the men who have unleashed a war > through brazen lies, in breach of every law ! > Alas, the many nations that such crimes abhor > have failed to stop the programmed "Shock and Awe". > > But silence now would make us guilty too. > Protest we must: Condemn colonial wars ! > Who are the victims, who the victimizers? Who ? > Ourselves, our leaders! To the White House: Mirrors ! > > Blest are the peacemakers, children of our God.* Deplore > the wielders of the sword: they must one day account. > Our Chief is seen in church, but does he grasp the core ? > It is the Sermon on the Mount.
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