Can You See It?

 

History is like a battle-hardened veteran

of conflict grown soft with age foregoing

previous alarms over the horrendous cost of

human lives surrendered to the aspirations

of dominating power and in its dotage recalls

glories of the battlefield becoming a faint voice 

alerting of the necessity of wars bemoaning 

their cost. Nothing is ever simple when it is

complex: History grins sardonically viewing

adversarial conflicts of the present reflecting

those of the past while auguring repetition in the

future. For history recalls two dictatorships of

genocidal intent and execution. One butchered

the Jews of Europe, the other dissenters to its

ideology. Now the latter focuses on cultural

genocide and scorched-earth destruction paid

handsomely for by the descendant nation that

once led an axis then marched its military into

the maw of a snarling nation that would not be

defeated and left the Third Reich smouldering 

in its ruins to the present where their roles are

reversed in a never-ending pantomime of war.