On Wars of Aggression
June 6th, 2007
By Archived Story
“War is the health of the state”
- Randolph Bourne
Remember sitting in AP Government
Remember the New York Times
Remember the cover
of the
cover of the
cover of the New York Times
splayed with ideas
on 1% doctrines
where it’s ok when one feels the slightest bit threatened
to plow homes with sweet
depleted uranium?
Unaccounted—does a child scream
when nothing is around to listen
except for the dust settling under
the once-terrace, now splayed heap
of arms and feet and vaporized concrete?
Eugene Debs went to jail
under accusation
of obstructing the World War
“The master class has
always
declared the wars;
the subject class has
always
fought the battles”
but what does that mean?
Obstructing
War
Where did it stall?
On the banks of the Somme?
Or in the recruiting office, after the truth?
