Invasion Etiquette

[mnaz]

Beat down.

So now the numb digits are returning...
hundred-thousand, two, perhaps six-fifty-k...
dead from the incessant winning of hearts and minds.
oh how to save the liberated from liberator
who never thought to ask...

[Zlatko Waterman]

May Gods deliver us from "liberation" at the hands of the convinced.

"The best lack all conviction,
The worst are full of the most passionate intensity . . ."

--W.B. Yeats

[mnaz]

I've been thinking about that Yeats line for a couple years now, ever since perezoso posted that poem here (I think it was here) in some kind of code, and I figured out how to decode it. Great, great line, and chilling, to me.

[Artguy]

Liberation is after all in the mind of the liberator...Lenin liberated the russians ...Castro the Cubans...and Bush has liberated the whole damn Middle east...Hell I'm havin a hard enough time liberating myself...tonight I found it very liberating to smoke a cohiba and drink a beer....