nearsighted military

The nearsighted military will never be able to cast their vision out along the boundaries of here/now and then. If it makes sense now then it must be right, but how many times has it not been just so? What would it take to make the clear decisions the right ones? Going through the jungle, always on alert, hypersensitive to changes in sound, temperature or smell. The click of a safety being released, the coolness of the air under a well hidden hanging net, the odour of sulfur from a hastily lit then extinguished match. It was our country first. We didn't even smoke cigarettes until they came. The sound of a tripwire releasing a spray of death. Hopefully that will be the last time. They really should learn.