I’d like to turn the time-piece back
To Wednesday, after sarin gas
Before our Tomahawk attack
What different might have come to pass
Consider Al Assad’s position
By himself he can’t survive
His power base, in his condition
Relies on powers from outside
Russia and Iran’s behind him
Absent them he’d soon be gone
Clearly Assad’s brain is dim
Deploying sarin nerve-gas bombs
Embarrassing this must have been
To Putin who removed the stock
Of Syria’s gas from fighting scenes
To see Assad, then bring it back
Since Trump and Putin have been close
Since we’ve agreements with Iran
Trump’s leverage on Assad was most
By dealing with them, since he can
It’s clear diplomacy would work;
With pressure from supporting states;
To stop this stupid Syrian jerk
From using gas beyond this date
Instead, Trump struck a Syrian base
Committing, thus, an act of war
Confusing our allegiances
And made things worse than were before
4/7/17
