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CROSSROAD
Contributed by
steeleyes
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Monday, 26th July 2004 @ 07:58:27 AM in AEST
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”The U.S. has alienated the populations of the Middle East and fuelled rage against Americans.
I liken the war in Iraq to a hornets’ nest hanging above your door. There are always hornets buzzing around and it’s a question of how you deal with them, whether you come along in the night and spray the nest with insecticide or cut it down.
What George Bush did was take a baseball bat and smack it. The hornets are out and all over the place and they are as mad as hell.”
David Silverberg, editor of homeland security magazine, HSToday.
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Before 9/11.
We believed things would only get better
Not worse and worse and worse
Believing we were on a bandwagon
Not following a hearse
We grew up believing
Things were bound to improve
Now with fear all around
We feel we’ve skipped from that groove
We didn’t evolve to cope
With threat as a way of life
We thought we’d left that behind
All those wars and hate and strife
Those who cause us terror
What motivates these men?
If there is not some source
Tell me, WHAT then?
It’s easy to call them evil
But that produces more heat than light
The consequences of their acts ARE evil
But is the ONLY response to fight?
Of course they must be stopped
With every decent means
But we must be careful when we do
To tell fantasy from dreams
Back in the Sixties
We saw the need for a better way
So many determined voices
But it was all but thrown away
In the end the movement failed
And mere hedonism held sway
But we had seen something new
Something to help us in this day
In the end drugs took the place
Of our longing to look and care
But even though it failed
The HEART of an answer was there
Not to blindly follow the corporate schemes
Or crude instructions from on high
Those of our bone-headed leaders
Just ensured that others die
This fight will not be won with war and war alone
Surely this much is very clear
A mad, bone-headed approach
Will only bring MORE fear
These times require wiser heads
Than the normal partisan crew
We can’t afford their postures
Or policy with votes in view
We need connected countries
Working together as one
We need strong agreement
Until this job is done
We need the sources
Of all this mayhem found
We need to heal the wounds
The fuel for this killing ground
In the end it’s bound to take
A deeper insight still
And most of all behind the words
An honest human will
This war won’t be won with killing
This war needs a stronger truth
If we’re to save our stressed-out souls
And the dreams of noble youth
We stand in a place between hope and war
In a field which others have sowed
We stand lonely, empty and in despair
It’s time to choose
Crossroad
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Re: CROSSROAD
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by pvd on
Monday, 26th July 2004 @ 09:17:09 AM AEST
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| You always seem to hit the nail on the head and hammerthe truth home. Keep it up and maybe come September instead of four more years America will be saying only four more months. |
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Re: CROSSROAD
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by Former_Member on
Monday, 26th July 2004 @ 12:44:38 PM AEST
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| I appreciate the passion in your writes. If only the rest of the nation were as involved, perhaps a better voice could lead us. |
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