If you can’t tell foreign policy
From West Side Story lately
Don’t feel bad. It might be that
For a long time there really hasn’t
Been that much difference. I’d go
Even further and say justifications
For military killing, id est, war,
Under close inspection rarely rises
Above the puerile although you
May have to enter the subconscious
To dredge up the nasty muck that
Governs it all. Somebody disses a
Kid on the street. Can’t let them
Get away with that. Let’s do a
Drive by to let them know we’re
Around. “When you’re a Jet, you’re
A Jet all the way from your first
Cigarette ’til your last dyin’ day . . .
You’re never alone. You’re never
Disconnected. You’re home with
Your own when company’s expected.
You’re well protected.” The Soviet
Union fell apart in 1989. The Warsaw
Pact crumbled with it. The US and
Russia began to cooperate. NATO
should have relaxed its threatening
Posture but instead pressured former
Soviet countries to join, moving the
Circle of the armed West up to the
Russian border. No, that bloc belongs
To the Montagues; we’ve got to push
Back and push back hard. Somebody
Has to avenge Mr. and Mrs. Archduke.
Mobilize the whole of Europe. It
Will be a short war. They’ll be back
Before Christmas. Charlie Wilson
Suggested we could give the Russkies
A Vietnam of their own by selling
Ground-to-air missiles to the
Mujahedin in Afghanistan. Keep
Them tied up for years in those
Hills at so little cost. Some Osama
Guy there needs to knock down
Those big old Soviet helicopters.
And it’ll be all undercover. That
Little nation of Kuwait has got to
Be saved from the aggression of
Ugly Iraq and its bad ruler
Saddam Hussein. Not the same
Saddam Hussein we backed to
Fight Iran? Yep same fellow. Can’t
You keep up with the truth? Now
That we’re not fighting Eastasia
Anymore we’re fighting Eurasia.
Please keep it straight. You may
Have to doublethink ’til you get it
Right. We had to destroy the village
In order to save it. Of course we’ve
Got to kill members of an ISIL
Terrorist’s family*—killing, that’s
All they know.** Just like those
Scalpers down at Wounded Knee.
And those VC babies at My Lai.
They won’t stop killing ’til we
Show we’re ready to fry every
Last city in Japan. Remember it’s
Gonna save us a million dead GIs.
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