says it was a necessary nasty compromise
\nin Iraqi governance but he
\ndubs himself an optimist i says
\nit is easier to be an optimist than a realist?
\nLeonard Bosswell, Vietnam vet
\nsays the troops knew at the beginning of that war
\nthey could win but were restrained from doing so
\nwhich begs the question of results…
\nVietnam divided north and south
\nKorea divided north and south
\nIraq divided and there we stand
\nsupporting one side of a civil war
\nbut i’m a realist still crying
\nfor Argentina, Palestinia
\nVietnam vets i still hear singing
\n“We gotta get out of this place
\nif it’s the last thing we do.”<\/p>\n
Look Jane see Dick
\nDick with his Weber grille
\nbrother takes ecstasy and “rips my life apart”
\nHester Prynne denied the morning after pill
\nwhile Johnny jumps up for Lavitra
\nZolof’s Columbine
\ndon’t negotiate with legal drug lords
\nthrow some pennies to the paupers
\ntorte reform so they can’t sue the bastards
\nit was not just regime change
\nSaddam is wrapped up in a cage
\nit was about regime change to what?
\nlet’s tick tock back in time for clues:
\nThe Shaw of Iran 1953
\nCarlos Castillo Armas Guatemala 1954
\nNgo Dinh Diem South Vietnam 1955
\nNguyen Van Thieu South Vietnam 1965
\nGeneral Suharto Indonesia 1965
\nJoaqu\u00edn Balaquer Dominican Republic
\n(kept in power) 1965
\nHouari Boumedienne Algeria 1976
\nAugusto Pinochet Chile 1973
\n(Don’t cry for me Argentina)
\nLon Nol Cambodia 1970<\/p>\n
et cetera to Y2K
\nwhere we revved up to a double barrel
\nSaddam and for a side dish Aristide
\nAristide in behalf of La Tortue
\nSaddam well oops a little careless
\nChalabi was outed as Saddam’s replacement
\nbut power is money so now we have
\nChalabi, Minister of Oil
\nfood for oil not being lucrative enough
\nit’s back to blood for oil
\npretending peace in Palestine\/Israel
\nby not mentioning the divisiveness
\nof the city of Jerusalem
\nthere’s your National Review optimist Rich Lowry
\nplease dot your t’s and cross your i’s
\nwe are in this together
\nan honest broker would listen to
\nthe Sunni’s referred to as insurgents
\nand the Hamas referred to as terrorists
\nboogie boogie all night not long
\nthe Sand Man is coming
\nis ticked
\nMay Day a very fine day
\nto remember 30,000 still dying every day
\ntsunami related starvation and disease
\nbut heys Dick and Jane
\nsee Jennifer run away
\ndesperate not to be a housewife
\nwhat the foot and who the hand
\nand what the man (mostly white)
\ncan allow
\nthat he was wrong or made a mistake
\nor did not know the answer
\n(forgive me dear male hearts that have touched my own
\nbut i know you know this song is not about you)
\nit is begging sometimes borrowed – bless you
\nall you still walking wounded it’s just another mother
\nbird floundering and wondering at April’s long snow
\nbut now it is May just a heartfelt away)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
says it was a necessary nasty compromise in Iraqi governance but he dubs himself an optimist i says it is easier to be an optimist than a realist? Leonard Bosswell, Vietnam vet says the troops knew at the beginning of that war they could win but were restrained from doing so which begs the question … Continue reading “Rich Lowry National Review”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blathers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/motherbird.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}