America's War

America is fighting a war

it cannot win;

a war which began many years ago,

when men believed they could

dominate other men,

controlling them through

fear and intimidation,

a war that gained momentum

with the idea that liberty

is sometimes better than life,

that there are some things

worth dying for,

that freedom at any cost

is sometimes better than life

under the rule of others;

a war given a face by a nation

of farmers and merchants,

who defeated the most powerful

empire in the world,

a war reinforced by a terrible

and bloody civil conflict,

fought on the principle that

economic gain does not justify

the enslavement of other men;

America is fighting a war

it cannot win;

against the only enemy

capable of defeating her vast

power and might;

America is fighting a war

against herself.

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