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July 17, 2006
"Mideast Crisis"
Bombs
Rockets
Death
Six days in
Don’t hold your breath
Whys
Whos
What-ifs
A few more rounds
Another air lift
The questions asked
Are never enough
But there never would have been
A Revolutionary War
Without a impassioned cause
And a renegade militia
Posted at 12:33 pm
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Comments (8):
To indirectly compare Hezbollah to the Revolutionary War seems strange. To say Israel has a right to the entire land of Israel like Hezbollah says also seems strange in light of the surrounding land being entirely Muslim. There is a balance and the comparisons aren’t the same. The indiscriminate murder by the terrorists of Hezbollah cannot be compared to the Revolutionary War wherethere wasn’t indiscriminate killings.
dh () - July 18, 2006 at 08:42 am
The questions asked should be why Hezbollah go into Israel not theWest bank and capture the soldiers in the first place? Why should Hezbollah exist in the first place? Why does Syria and Iran support Hezbollah and terrorism when other Arab states are peaceful and don’t?
DH () - July 18, 2006 at 08:44 am
Man this whole thing confuses me. I have recently watched 3 documentaries on the Jew and Pal conflict. I thought it would bring some clarity to the issue, but it really hasn’t. I learned a whole lot that I didn’t know. Bascially what I came up with is that both sides are fighting for these ideaologies that leave them dying, killing and repeat for the rest of time. While I support Jews as roots to my religion I don’t choose that they go kill people…confused Sorry I took up the space.
Randy () (URL) - July 18, 2006 at 09:50 am
I choose not to comment one way or the other in that poetry, I think, sometimes comes from a place that defies explanation.
timsamoff () (URL) - July 18, 2006 at 10:55 am
The whole thing has always struck me as a large-scale gang war, with both sides justifying current acts of aggression by pointing to past ones in a sort of infinite regress. I, too, have tried (and am still trying) to get a better understanding of it but have never yet managed to do so.
wheat (URL) - July 19, 2006 at 09:37 am
It seems to me that if Hezbollah were eliminated that greater security in the region will result. At least that is what an Muslim professor from the Univ. of Maryland from the Anwar Sadat institute said.
dh () - July 19, 2006 at 4:14 pm
Who does the eliminating? Not us, I hope. Out “eliminating” of the Taliban did nothing to stabilize the middle east. It looks like Israel has done a good job of beating Hezbollah down. I hope cooler heads will prevail. This latest conflict only underscores the futility of continual war and the necessity of peace.
wheat (URL) - July 19, 2006 at 6:22 pm
Really solid poetry.
Billy Brame () (URL) - July 25, 2006 at 9:00 pm
