NP? God bless Afghanistan

[Doug Millison]

In church this morning we talked about how it's so easy these days to get
weepy when we sing God Bless America, and about the difference between
sentiment and emotion, and I got to thinking about how the thing that
sometimes bothers me about these displays of national sentimentality is
that they don't seem to take into account -- don't publicly acknowledge at
least -- the people who suffer at the other end of the missile trajectory
rainbow, on the receiving end of the ordnance; in our church, we believe
that God loves everybody, not only Americans.

With apologies to Irving Berlin, who, according to the U.S. Library of
Congress, intended "to write a "peace" song"
(http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm019.html):

God bless Afghanistan,
Land that we bomb.
Stand beside her, and guide our
Brutal strikes with cruise missile aplomb.
>From the mountains, to the cities,
To the rubble, red with blood
God bless Afghanistan, as we pound its mud.
God bless Afghanistan, as we shed its blood.

Now everybody--



Doug Millison - Writer/Editor/Web Editorial Consultant
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