Failing Badly

A lot of pictures of very dusty streets at the moment. Was it all just for this? It is good that he is gone but did we have to do it this way? War is always chaotic and I am not going to say I support this war just because it is successful and appears to be going better than anyone hoped. The "conventions of war" is a very sick concept. Even if your supposed result is done for what you think are justified reasons, when it is achieved using this sort of military domination it can only cause trouble in the long run. All of this will rebound in the years to come.



How do we justify this? I must stress that neither of these people are dead or injured as far as I know. Don't give me any abuse about the complexities of this situation. This should not happen.

Abrams Dolphins

The grey and chevroned military, the gods of war,
have turned aquatic in their lack of fight.
The ammunition melts and falls as microbes,
through the dusty air to earth.

We failed the day the first troop left her homeland,
a parts-clerk nearly killed on camera,
stepped off the boat in sun and died
before the networks found her bleeding.

This child, younger than the war knows no invasion,
knows no troops of either side,
and never hears the melting, marching black boots
before her cry has faded, fed upon the plains.

And given water, this man, his son asleep returns,
an enemy regained for all time by this captivity.
What conventions lie in unread folders,
hidden in the packs of grunts and rabble.

The seventh protocol, the lost conventions, fail us,
all these men, un-uniformed, are enemies.
A misheard statement of the end of war
has led us all the time to a fourth war of gold.