Ethics Drowned Poem by Stanley Cooper

Ethics Drowned

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When searching for answers, I’d never have thought
We’d plunge heads underwater of prisoners we’ve caught
Waterboarding, a behavior new to our culture
Instead of interrogation, we sadistically torture

Parameters of the Geneva Convention
Created with intent of humane protection
For civilian or soldier prisoners of war
From the kind of mistreatment, good men abhor

Our ethics and morals are frightfully compromised
When we sink to the level of all despots despised
If waterboarding continues to be the name of our game
I forsee for our country nothing but shame

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sebastian Sandok 18 November 2006

Very sad truth you have depicted, though the land of the free needs folk like you to send forth a gospel truth. A job well Done, Sir. Cooper. S.S. Sandok

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