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| Iraq |
| The Saddam Soliloquy |
| 2003-04-02 |
| How would Will Shakespeare give voice to Saddam? from M.E. Forum via AtlanticBlog To bomb or not to bomb: that is the question: Whether ‘tis nobler in the end to suffer The threats and lies of outrageous madmen, Or to take arms against a latent evil, And by opposing depose him? To kill: to reap; No more; and by a reap to say we prevent The terror and the million possible deaths That region seems heir to, ‘tis a reformation Devoutly to be soug't. To kill, to reap; To reap, perchance to glean: Ay, there's the rub; For in our reap of death what gleanings may come When we have scalpel'd off this human boil, Must give us pause. There's the defect That allowed the travesty of such a reign; For what world would bear the quips and scoffs of slime, The oppressive wrongs, the proud king's palaces, Among throngs of unfed children, justice's delay. The arrogance of this offal, and the wounds For him his imprisoned population takes When we ourselves might its terminus make With a spare warhead? Why our leaders bear, To try and speak with this soulless blight, Save the dread of some worse arising, The unreleas'd populace that once released No containment remains, induces a chill, And makes us work this lunatic we have Than move to chaos we know not of? Thus fear can make diplomats of us all; And thus our former cheer of coalition Is trickly'd sour from the stale cask of doubt, And battle plans of fist and torrent With this concern may set the goal aside, And miss the call to action. Jonathan Calt Harris, 2003 |
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