<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527317" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Victory Operation Enduring Freedom?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">global observers <br>New York post <br>9/11 aftermath</div><div style="margin:10px 0">allies enemies <br>with baited breath<br>wondered at </div><div style="margin:10px 0">responses<br>as bombs <br>fell every </div><div style="margin:10px 0">six seconds on<br>capital Kabul Afghanistan<br>without mercy... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Operation Enduring Freedom<br>stated ploy goal of dismantling <br>al-Qaeda terrorist organization</div><div style="margin:10px 0">left civilian largest city<br>in invaded Afghanistan<br>littered in bomb craters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">foliage burned blackened <br>rotting collateral civilian<br>dead recruitment bodies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">triumphant United States had<br>removed target Taliban regime <br>created a viable democratic state... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">or had NATO forces fanned<br>birth seeds widespread <br>revenge Taliban insurgency? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Postscript analysis a decade on <br>reason had world's supreme only<br>remaining superpower responded </div><div style="margin:10px 0">coolly cautiously carefully <br>to avoid plunge bathing in rivers <br>of blood endless war death </div><div style="margin:10px 0">of American democracy<br>berserk unleashing frenzied <br>attacks upon everyone... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">regardless of consequences? <br>Reason prevailed not mired<br>wars of occupation followed </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in Iraq Libya Afghanistan <br>deploying drones in Pakistan<br>clubs CIA FBI covertly </div><div style="margin:10px 0">unleashed teams of mercenary <br>assassins across the world to hunt <br>down kill in name democracy! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Is it not enough five US wars? <br>Can we advance into extra occupations? <br>Are we drunk with malice hate? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are we addicted to foreign wars? <br>Are we addicted to violence bloodshed? <br>Are we addicted to greed hatred? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do any wise American generals <br>really believe they can bludgeon <br>all nations an entire world </div><div style="margin:10px 0">into obedience with total immunity? <br>All questions posed all queries submitted<br>to Washington are answered with attacks? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">From bombs guns missiles tanks <br>as mechanized death drones on? <br>Has Congress completely abdicated </div><div style="margin:10px 0">constitutional duty as authorized only <br>government body that declare war can? <br>Congress routinely ignored in matters<br> <br>of military action responsibility policy? <br>America when will you learn might does not <br>prove right disarm enemies with a smile kind? </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527317" data-title="Victory Operation Enduring Freedom? de Terence George Craddock" data-description="global observers New York post 9/11 aftermath allies enemies with baited breath wondered at responses as bombs fell every six seconds on capital Kabul Afghanistan without mercy... Operation Enduring Freedom stated ploy goal of dismantli..."></div> </div> </div>

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