Our Third Great Failure
Our third great failure was that we installed
Political appointees to run all –
Or if it was not all, then it was most –
Of the prime institutions from their posts
Within
The Green Zone where they felt no harm
From gunfire, explosions or alarms,
Or from
their gaping lack of expertiseAt running even well-made agencies,
Which theirs were not since we, with
shock and awe,
Had brought the infrastructure to a crawl
And used Iraq as
our own proving groundFor
economic theories that abound
In Chicago labs, not the arena
Where events occur such as
Katrina.
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1 comment:
I have really enjoyed your poem triptic.
It seems our local politics are following Washington D.C. fine example, at least they are here in Knoxville.
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