They Died in Vain; Deal With It

by Ray McGovern
CommonDreams

".....Two passages (the first a one-liner) shout out their applicability to U.S. misadventures in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and — God help us — where next?

“If they ask you why we died, tell them because our fathers lied.”

and

“It is not wise for the Christian white

To hustle the Asian brown;

For the Christian riles,

And the Asian smiles

And weareth the Christian down.

At the end of the fight

Lies a tombstone white

With the name of the late deceased;

And the epitaph drear,

A fool lies here,

Who tried to hustle the East.”"