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It simply isn’t working.
No one seems to understand.
You can’t just march your troops in
And govern a foreign land
When you don’t know the customs
You don’t know the hiding places
You don’t know the friends and family ties
Or what their religious base is.
To a land you’ve burned and bombed
To families you’ve torn apart
You drive their streets with machine guns aimed
And hope to win their hearts?
The people are uncooperative?
They don’t want to understand?
Why, you can’t speak the language
How can you give a command?
Our founding fathers reminded us
Those terrorists of long ago
There are fundamental human rights
We were all supposed to know
So try as you will to govern
With your overpowering stance
Without the consent of the governed
You haven’t got a chance
So I’m sad to say, we’ve lost again
Through the arrogance of power
We’ve reached the time to realize
This was not our finest hour
How many more boys and girls will die
How many millions will we blow?
Before the powers that be in Washington
Know, what we already know,
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28 October 2004, 02:31
Nicely done!