The Weapons Inspector

Aircraft Carriers from the USA enter the straits of Hommuz.


What I want to be, will be
If I say its true
then believe me.
Within my scaffolded building
there is only one place
to turn the screw.


William Hague talks of real and potent threats.


Seek and you will find, find
a chimera breathing fire
then believe me
the tower cannot stay standing
if threats are allowed
to remain alive.


Centrifuges are being installed


My Arsenal belongs to me
I'll use it wisely
so believe me
others don't understand restraint
or the urgent need
to stay on top.


Obama says all options are open.


Of course no weapons were found then
I just went to war
unauthorised
the weapons inspector tried to
stop the carnage but I
Over-ruled him.


It is better to support than humiliate.


Of course no weapons will be found now
but still I'll go to war
unauthorised
because they cannot be allowed
to have the weapons
that I covet.


Do you support a nuclear-free Middle East including the disarmament of Israel's weapons?


And when the bombing is done and
people crawl out of their
dead dusty hell
they will smile grimly, united
in the wish to make
what they never really wanted.

Thermopylae Revisited

The Persian King Xerxes may well have been re-incarnated as Angela Merkel, but there is one significant difference.  The three hundred Spartans who fought for freedom against the almost endless power of the Persians have been replaced by three hundred Greek M.P's who take the view that the austerity measures imposed by the germans must be followed.  The people of Greece want Freedom while the three hundred want to be a small, austere economic sprat belonging to a prescriptive Europe headed by Germany.

Sooner rather than later though I think Thermopylae will be revisited as the people of Greece insist on freedom.  The tide is turning and the economic appointees of Merkel and Sarkozy should realise that the people don't want them.  From the bottom upwards there is pressure to change and when Francois Hollande becomes the next president of France there will be pressure downwards and another nail in the coffin of austerity and the euro.