A Man without Reason
By smokejack
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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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You mention several times
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!!
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Hi Smokejack,
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...
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Your poem tells it like it is
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.
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I am under the impression
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?
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Thanks for responding
Thanks for responding Smokejack. Interesting points you have made, to be discussed or considered in other places and times!
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