We won! We won!

The poem you are about to read is controversial. I am not an anarchist, and am not a leftist or a rightist either. I am not a liberal or a conservative, a capitalist or a socialist. I’m non-partisan and proud of it. I believe that American democracy as we know it is fated to crumble, no man-made system can cater to the needs of humanity forever. I love both Islam and Christianity, just keep in mind satire is all about making people realize their own follies or misconceptions. Read this with an open mind and heart.

We won! We won! How could one win a war? I thought.
In war there is only death no one truly wins.
We won? What was our prize? Maybe it’s those bomb shell laden streets cluttered with orphans, beggars, and other outcasts?
Or maybe it’s those insurgents kidnapping our relatives?
Or perhaps those suicide bombers crashing into the building where our loved ones work?
Hmmma Yes that’s it, I guess a couple cents off my gas bill was well worth all those lives.
Anyway, it’s not like I know any of the people who died.
I mean they don’t even believe in God they believe in some guy called Allah or something like that.
Plus they talk like animals and probably smell like them too, and their women probably wear those veils to cover their gross disfigured faces that they got in punishment of their unchristian ways.
I mean what’s the difference between killing an Arab and swatting a fly?
Look at it this way our government is just like a pest control business and our president is the company’s top exterminator.
With him on our side we might be getting our gas for free soon.
There sure will be aoepeace in the middle easta So yeah I guess they could say we won, won a Hell (al-Nar) load of enemies!

© 2004 Danilo Quddus Stern-Sapad.