[lbo-talk] Dulce et Decorum Est or War's good business, so give your son...

[Mike Ballard]

> but the solemn joy thousands of Americans seem to be
taking in
burying their 18-year-olds, their children home via
body bag and 
they're
GLAD! It makes them happy, it makes them proud,
something I find so
profoundly tragic and wasteful it brings tears to my
eyes. It brings 
home
the point, I suppose, that most Americans really do
believe this is a 
good,
just war, worth expending their kids for

* * * 

, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Wilfred Owen 

The Latin tag means: Sweet and proper it is to die for
one's country.

*******************
rejoyce (Grace Slick) 
Chemical change (like a laser beam)
You've shattered the warning amber light
Make me warm, let me see you
Moving everything over
Smiling in my room, you know
You'll be inside of my mind soon 

There are so many of you
White shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, white shirt
and tie
Wedding ring, wedding ring
Mulligan stew for Bloom
The only Jew in the room
Saxon's sick on the Holy dregs
And they're constant getting throw up on his leg 

Molly's gone to blazes
Boleyn's crotch amazes
Any woman whose husband sleeps
With his head all buried down at the foot of his bed 

I've got his arm, I've got his arm
I've had it for weeks
I've got his arm
Steven won't give his arm to no ghost on mother's farm
War's good business, so give your son
But I'd rather have my country die for me 

There are so many of you
Sell your mother for a Hershey bar
Grow up looking like a car
There, all you want to do is live
All you want to do is give
But somehow, it all falls apart... 

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"the great enemy of clear language is insincerity"--George Orwell

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