drums pound loudly as the last real empire builds up for one more great war the final battle to forever lock oil to the U.S. dollar to end all hope for cultural variation to show Russia and China why we are the world police – media blackout on Chinese warships and Russian bombers as we sit glued to a debate with no real weight we sit at the precipice of history repeating just call Obama, F.D.R. but without the polio to stop him becoming king – when the first ship sinks somewhere out in the South Pacific will we have bombed our own like the Tonkin Gulf in order to gain public support for one more crack at the draft will it be those rascally men from the red menace dropping our own stolen technology on the heads of our sons and combat ready daughters will Russian destroyers invade the coastline like we did in Normandy to stop school shootings and teach us all how to make borscht do we actually get to utilize 50 year old nuclear missiles in the name of peace and better trade rates – the 40 years of my life we have played in the Middle-East hit and run, bomb and apologize innocent civilians as collateral damage robotic drones keeping tally… will I get to see in my lifetime the horrors that are only properly expressed on grainy History Channel video –