If the world releases swelling bombs,
if the world succumbs to whining qualms
about how man should live.
If our nation turns to stone
and rules the freedoms we have sown.
If a Hitler walks the land
and says, "I am peaceful man."
If these things of which I say
come about some cloudy day,
I will have to go,
and shrug my shoulders on my way.
And I'm sure the things I write
will be buried by the trite
who think they know what's best for man,
who think they have the power and
whose heads you'll find among the sand
of an ocean full of lies.
copyright 2010 by Robert Villegas, Jr.
In 1972, Richard Nixon went to China to inaugurate a new China Policy. His goal was to create an economic bridge between China and the world, and turn the communist country into a more peaceful player. This was certainly a laudable goal, but Nixon missed one important detail: A violent dictatorship cannot change overnight without a major rethinking of its policies.
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