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JUST CAUSE
Contributed by
ThanhThanh
on
Thursday, 30th June 2011 @ 02:50:49 PM in AEST
Topic:
political
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JUST CAUSE
You asked me to tell about my native land,
And you made as if you did all understand;
But, I was aware you gave to it no priority,
Except to amuse yourself with your curiosity.
Would it be too demanding if I asked back
Your opinion on the war that became a crack
As the longest and most controversial conflict
To bedevil and cause people to contradict?
Do not mention the fifty-eight-thousand lost,
One-hundred-and-eighty-billion dollars cost,
And the way it happened in that painful past,
Its social and mental syndrome thence to last.
Just tell me what you feel, think, and react
When they claimed lack of Just Cause a fact
While National Security and Interests' scope
Is asserted to include anywhere on the globe!
Why not to let Europe for the Nazis to take,
And Asia for the Mikado militarists to invade,
And West Germany for the Soviets to fool,
And South Korea for the Red Chinese to rule?
Of course, the States had to pay some prices
To win and gain the biggest and best slices!
Thus, they had recourse to "No Just Cause!"
Only because they came to a defamed pause!
Wait and see! I bet, it will be taking actions
To intervene for and against certain factions.
The Middle East, Africa... the cons and pros:
No more "Far! Strange! Misjudging the foes!"
Now, you have got it: It is remedying things!
Iron fists? velvet gloves? just tactical swings!
The Free World must win to redeem its pride
And justify that the Just Cause is on our side!
THANH-THANH
1992
Copyright ©
ThanhThanh
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2011-06-30 14:50:49]
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Re: JUST CAUSE
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by poeticjestix on
Thursday, 30th June 2011 @ 03:07:02 PM AEST
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we expect our leaders to be wise
but they are melodramatic fools
with an over the top fear of letting their country down
a sense of history
they are generally, always proved wrong
yet believe they are right,
even on their death beds.
they tend to grow old
their victims tend to die young
such is life
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Re: JUST CAUSE
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by UNORTHODOX on
Tuesday, 5th July 2011 @ 12:20:52 PM AEST
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Almost every man in position will act in his own best intrests,
his loction or demographic he appears to represent is usually incidental,
the great deceivers of the world are never seen as such until it's too late
and even then not all believe they where deceived.
Peasants have no say and more often than not
no knoweledge of what's being done in their name,
but every dog shall have it's day,
as every man will reap what he sows, here on earth or there after
well versed and adament passage
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