BY PEACE WE MEAN –

Too often a lasting peace is not attained
through diplomacy, and negotiations.
Lesson one, is to believe that when an
aggressive head of state is bent on expansion,
the antagonist must be contained at all costs.
Peace is what results when stronger nations
successfully convince an ambitious country
that it best stay within its own borders.
To enforce this rule, the United Nations pledge
to join in keeping renegade countries impotent.
The United States of America is the only
national people attacked by killing zealots,
born of modern terrorism, and it is apparently,
the lone peaceful nation to be so targeted.
Sadly, there are vocal doubts and censure for our
leaders' design to eliminate certain proven enemies.
So, let us ask ourselves, By Peace, We Mean --

©Copyright 2003 by F. William Broome