SURGERY
The surge has succeeded, so we've been told
By the right wing brave and the steadfast bold.
While the libs were all packing, to cut and run,
With the promise of elections yet to be won,
Persistent George and his neo-con friends
Preached a new beginning of never ends.
And now, months later, as violence abates,
Though he bested Hillary through 20 debates,
Barack and his buddies take a newer tack
With trips to the center, and then to Iraq.
There to be told, our effort's succeeding,
Insurgency's down, Al Qaeda is bleeding.
McCain may be losing but still remains close,
As the Washington pundits give us a dose
Of told you so tributes to the don't leave so fast,
Who looked to the future and forgot the past.
They talked about winning and now claim we are,
So John and his friends have hitched to their star.
But even Iraqis have learned to demand
A non-neo-con end in this quixotic land.
We can stay for a bit, until they are able,
Then we must get out, on Iraq's own timetable.
Though longer than most, and shorter than some,
The result is the same -- we still cut and run.
Will George and his buddies accept this result?
End the insanity, stop the tumult?
Or will they just soldier on, content to remain
Uninformed spectators in this neo-con game?
Afghanistan burns, the enemy waits,
For a new President of the United States.
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Corneilius! "Barack and his buddies take a newer tack / With trips to the center, and then to Iraq." That's good, very clever.
ReplyDeleteBut poetry? C'on Corneilius. And in iambic pentamater? How effete must liberals be.
Take, as a counter example, McCain's three-step plan. It's simple and he doesn't mess around:
1. Elect McCain
2. ???
3. Victory in Iraq
But I do have something substantive to say. This week has been pretty devastating for the Republicans. Maliki's endorsement of Obama's plan for withdrawal makes the argument very clear in my mind: if McCain doesn't agree to remove American military presence as per the wishes of the Iraqi people and Iraqi government (and, for that matter, the American people), then what he is essentially calling for is the extension of U.S. 'empire' in its most traditional purest form. He is proposing to keep an occupying military force in a country against its wishes as a sovereign nation.
And if empire is going to be a part of American foreign policy in the 21st century, then it is at least a debate that we should be having using the proper terms.