A FEW OF MY NOT-FAVORITE THINGS

Missiles on rooftops and drones in the offing,
This is a matter too serious for scoffing.
London Olympics must be well prepared
To ward off the A’rabs of whom we’re so scared.

Never a moment too soon to be armed,
Just to be sure the good Brits are not harmed
By stray IEDs from the Mujahadeen
Hiding in subways right next to the Queen.

Property management will not be pleased,
But throughout the Contests the rules won’t be eased.
Gated communities must be protected
But slums and bordellos need not be affected.

Such is the temper of permanent war
These are a few of the things I abhor.

What’s really terrifying is the insane length to which over-heated governments will go to justify continuing the “war on terror” which has proven so lucrative in terms of Pentagon equipment and servicing.  Without it the U.S. military-industrial complex will have to start growing strawberries or something.  Then we’d have to instigate something like “The Strawberry Wars”, wouldn’t we?  And where would that take us?  Imagine it all ending up in a huge International Strawberry Festival, and people could run through the streets throwing strawberries at each other until the Bull of Violence got all tuckered out and just laid down in the gutter someplace and went to sleep!

Of course, this couildn’t happen here in the U.S. because we have the Posse Comitatus Act of…uh…oh, right…that was eviscerated by Bush’s Military Commissions Act, and never reinstated by Obama…