Ban Peacekeeping

Ban Peacekeeping

By

James Bredin

Canada should pass a law to avoid troubled places,
Their affairs are not ours and too many dead-guy cases,
They call it peacekeeping but any excuse for a war,
If we had a no-peacekeeping law, we couldn’t go that far.

And why should Canadians die for causes over there?
As we count the dead in this spectacular UN affair,
And our pompous politicians might have to sit and think,
If we had this law, their ambitions would surely shrink.

Just pull out of Afghanistan and tell the UN go to hell,
We’re a sovereign nation and this whole affair smells.
It doesn’t take a lot of brains to figure we should pull out,
No victory for the dead, and why, in case you had a doubt.

We need this law just to keep our politicians in check,
Can’t go peacekeeping where a man might get shot in the neck,
Or maybe binding referendums or recall would work,
Maybe save lives instead of politicians going berserk.

Thursday, August 24, 2006