[Newspoetry] Balikatan

[Clint Popetz]

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20020114/ts/philippines_usa_dc_3.html


	"kicking out terrorism"
		advisers
	seeking the "actual enemy"
		trainers
	fighting only in self defense
		consultants 
	with guns 
		non-combatants

	in a country whose constitution forbids their presence

	another domino falls
	a tiny wood-knocking sound
	only later to be replayed
	when the world is licking the wounds
	of colonialism waged
	
	bush would do well to remember
	that napolean had a high approval rating too


http://www.armedforces.mil.ph/balikatan/