IS THIS THE WAY TO ARMAGEDDON
We will finish off IS,
it’s not your job, Syria,
for they are your own people
whom you keep from humanitarian aid
and we pray for beneath
church steeples
while we bomb them more-the-
merrier.
Did we say we wanted you out,
Assad,
could have,
though we might be mad.
no, a voice in my ear says:
we want you out,
but then again maybe not.
Do we sound glib
with our recklessness showing up
to provide that bolt in the neck
for IS.
Some say we drove them insane,
well, who knows, but do they have to go
to excess.
Once we liked the secular,
they were following our path
and fighting our wars,
the Iran one was spectacular,
then you became too strong
and turned your attention to
Kuwait and Israel.
Why did it have to go so wrong
when we were having your enemy tortured
in foreign cells.
Then again it could be good to destroy,
like Trotskyism and its permanent
revolution,
you just blindly go on
expecting no solution.
saying `Something will turn up’,
like Micawber,
but no nuclear weapons please
or something equally
macabre.
But who’s getting it together now
with a proper plan for the Middle East
that promises a definite way of life
with a startling IS feast,
that could cross the Mediterranean
one day
walking on a pontoon of heads,
planning our re-birth by
caesarean.
Wilson John Haire.
Labour Affairs Magazine 