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Showing posts with label War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Homage To A Government by Philip Larkin , published in 1974 (written in 1969), regarding the withdrawal of British soldiers from overseas posts

Homage To A Government

Next year we are to bring all the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.

It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds.

Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.

Monday, December 24, 2018

Review | When presidents lied or misled the nation to go to war — and when they didn’t By Matthew Dallek FROM The Washington Post

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Walls and Militarized Police: How Israel Is Exporting Its Occupation to the US by Ramzy Baroud FROM Antiwar.org

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Jeremy Scahill's "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield" FROM Reason TV [HARD]

One more reason not to think Obama is much different from either of Bush Jr. or Sr.

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