“It is far easier to make war, than peace.”— Georges Clemenceau
may well determine history,
far more real than the best laid plans of men.
In 1914 the Archduke and Duchess of Austro-Hungary
traveled to make peace in a dangerous area.
On the return the driver had the wrong map.
Trapped them in an alley where a nobody
caught and Glocked them and WW I
blew up, killing ten million in four years.
Five years later, three white men,
Wilson, US,
Clemenceau, France,
Lloyd George. Britain
had the hubris to remap the world
as if they were gods.
Created Yugoslavia which fell apart
in genocidal violence
Carved out Iraq and
we know how that turned out.
A cloud cover saved Kokura, Japan.
Too hard to see, “Fat Boy”
destroyed over 50,00 in
second choice Nagasaki
in less than five minutes.
Rejected the freedom petition
of a waiter in France,
Ho Chi Minh of Viet Nam
and killed 4 million Vietnamese,
57,000 American GI’s.
The best laid plans of mice too
are often ruled by circumstances.
Originally published in Blood And Honey