A PERFORMANCE
"A performance" murmured the SAS man, with a resigned sigh,
As he watched and listened to a practiced Blair reply.
He had reason to witness what the millionaire speaker said,
His son had been dispatched to war and became one of the dead.
The former PM had no regret for the decision he had made,
Instead he sought the mea culpa of the price high office paid.
And no doubt George Bush Junior is very grateful to our Tone
For his help redeeming Bush Senior's rep. that the first Iraq war had blown.
The SAS man stared at the shameless image on the TV screen
Surely thinking about the death of a son and what that son had seen.
"A performance" was his damning phrase in words that we could share,
As the world saw the curtain fall at last on belief in Tony Blair.
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M.C. Newberry
Sun 10th Jul 2016 17:23
Harry - your question is deserving of close consideration.
In this day and age, "intelligence" is the most valuable
currency. Without it, we are blundering around in the
dark, unable to differentiate between fact and fiction
when so many other factors come into play, especially
in far-off nations with newly emergent means to
purchase the latest war weapons with which to achieve
dominance over their perceived enemies. There is
irony in the way the oil that lubricates the wheels of
the modern world now provides the lands which supply it
with the ways to achieve a threatening supremacy
over their neighbours, still based on ancient tribal and
ethnic differences. The Middle-East is a hot-spot
of tensions dating back centuries, yet there is still an
inability by "The West" to keep up with what is going
on there in a constantly evolving state of affairs,
when yesterday's enemy is today's new-found ally...
and vice versa.
Ergo. removing one dictator without foreseeing the
risk of admitting another on to the world stage needs
the utmost care before approving any operation, not
only for its hoped-for success but also the aftermath
- something that went disastrously wrong in the Bush/ Blair enthusiasm for the removal of Saddam Hussein.
But the cauldron still bubbles with barely restrained
antagonisms and ambitions.
Iraq, Iran, Israel - Oy, Oy, Oy!!