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Alternatives (Free verse) by Dovina

Let the war go on three more brutal years. Double our losses, double theirs too. It’s worth the cost if during that time technologists come to our cure for a sickness we all endure. If by then the carnage persists, admit we’re defeated, sit down with the winners. Save what we can of all we admire, And give them their wishes, as much as we must to stop the killings and grant us some peace. So, you with the math, the physics, the code, we give you three years of our blood and our souls. Go into battle with all of your heart, Root out the evil, force them to stop, because you, my friends, are all that we’ve got.

-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I. 29-Jan-07/1:14 PM
Exactly. There is no such thing as a single, unified "other side" anyway. It's barely coherent enough to call it a volcano God. A myriad of factions, all fighting each other, united, perhaps, by a hatred of America, but divided by far too many other things to ever co-operate. People see the headlines: SCORES KILLED IN BAGHDAD. They put their thinking caps on: Gosh what an evil man Bush is for going in there and killing all those civilians. Perhaps if they'd read beyond the first paragraph, they'd know it wasn't that simple. That it was muslim vs muslim now. It's muslim vs hindu in the semis, then muslim vs Jesu in the final.

Operation Enduring Freedom wins, or everybody loses.




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