To Best Fight the Horrors of Imperialism Abroad
We Must Defend What’s Left of Democracy at Home
By Matt Roberts
X-rays of scores of children’s shattered skulls revealing snipers’ bullets lodged deep inside;1
Hospital patients flailing catheterized arms as they burn alive in their beds;2
A 13-year-old boy in the middle of a street, wounded and unable to move while a drone circles above, its operator patiently waiting for passersby to come to the child’s aid before firing a missile to cut them all down;3
A man crouching over a collection of hands, wondering if he can match any to the other recovered parts of people killed when the UN shelter they were in was bombed;4
Ancient villages that crowned hilltops for millennia, wired with explosives and reduced to dust in seconds;5
Hundreds of thousands, old and young, able and disabled, starved for weeks before being given the choice: abandon your shelters with whatever you can carry and walk tens of miles elsewhere in the blazing sun without water, or be declared a terrorist and killed;6
& another hospital bombed; & another UN shelter; & another mosque – the dead piled upon the dead.7
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