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From 2.5 pages of text in a Chomsky paperback* (poem)

By John Crandell

Stunning clarity: that we had to bomb Vietnam
    in defending Vietnamese from somebody else
"Since nobody else was there"
    the truth of matters get buried
"Under edifice after edifice
    of lies upon lies"
When too many people
    begin to understand
Such thoughts need rearrangement
    into a strange form of sanity
"That whatever we do is right"
    be it in Central America, the Middle East
Or Chile
    if the average American thinks approximately
100 thousand Viet civilians were annihilated by US
    despite millions having died thus
No wonder that inside Oval Office
    JabbaSaurus once sat, and sits again
Will Berkely or MIT be bombed
    in saving Americans from somebody else?

* Media Control - Representation as Reality, By Noam Chomsky, 1997

—John Crandell