Déjà Vu As Kabul Falls- A Retrospective
Kabul from the Taliban can’t defend
Mirroring Saigon’s shameful end.
Both wars lost but did not matter,
As their purpose was to make the MIC fatter.
Colonel Bacevich’s After the Apocalypse’s introspection
Shows the military as used offers no protection.
With a defense budget of over a trillion
Covid has killed a third of a million.
With Afghanistan’s predictable and inevitable demise,
It’s time to thoroughly revise
Our military’s worldwide killing enterprise.
Lets close overseas military bases
And divert those hands in ways fulfilling
Rather than in senseless and mindless killing
America is not the exceptional indispensable nation
That’s mythic confabulation
We should regain our sanity
And use our precious gifts to truly aid humanity.
Howard P. Charman, MD 8-15-2021