“Since 9/11 the United States has entered new territory, for we are in our fifteenth year of a government-proclaimed state of permanent war, an absolute war against ‘terrorism or evil.’” Bill Ayers, Demand the Impossible: A Radical Manifesto
Why aren’t Americans outraged by
15 years of continuous warfare?
Trillions of dollars, thousands of human lives
The standing professional army of the United States
Never sleeps.
Boots on the ground, drones in the air.
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan.
The Establishment (with no skin in the fight)
Claims we are safer from the hordes
Who besiege us, threaten our freedom
And the American Way of Life.
No proof offered except more of the same,
And billions more of our national treasure sucked down
The Pentagon’s rabbit hole.
War undeclared and without end, what we used to call
A quagmire
Is now
Normal,
Accepted as inevitable and necessary.
Human needs like healthcare, education, food, clean water,
Meaningful jobs, mass transit, bridges, roads, and breathable
Air
Go begging.
We are told we can’t afford these things,
And to propose an end to our imperial madness
Is to be labeled unpatriotic, utopian or naive.
Just ask Dr. Jill Stein.
Who?
That’s my point.
Another world isn’t possible says the Establishment.
The indispensable nation must remain on the march,
Left, right, left, left, right, left
Hup, two, three, four
Armed to the teeth
We always come in peace
But leave behind
Mangled bodies
smoking ruins
Chaos
And new enemies.
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