Politics and Chess

The ways to play politics
And chess are the same
For each is an anticipatory game,
To pre-think and predict
Each consequent move
Puts one in a winning groove,
Just like failing to understand
That the elimination of the
Sunnite regime of Saddam Hussein
Would be our greatest enemy's,
Shiite Iran's, major gain,
With the delicate balance between
Iran's Shiites and Iraq's Sunni gone,
The entire Middle East became undone,
While our nuclear advantage
Will quite soon be none,
It is, unfortunately, clear to some
That after our ill-conceived war
In Iraq is over with and done
Our winning cards maybe gone.

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz