Pacifists, Take Note! Poem by Michael Pruchnicki

Read and study history, all you pacifists
and lovers of man-unkind! Even the poet
e.e. cummings had it right in the end!
Ask the diplomats who sat down with the likes
of Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito and Stalin
about prospects for peace in the coming ages!

Look at the news on TV, for the sake of Christ!
You really think Western Civilization is the reason
that the Mideast is aflame with hostility for the West?

Turn up the thermostat on cold days!
Shop in modern markets without fear of IEDs!
Gripe and pay taxes for a modern Army!
Stick your head in the sand if you prefer death!

Talk peace to me and all the men and women
who stand guard against the barbarism
of Muslim fascism! Arm yourself!