All Things Must Pass

Five years, George and man, I still miss your sounds.

I am shamed and scared when I read of the crisis brewing in the Middle East knowing it was done out of hubris. Shakespeare could have written this one

A son, with a past of relying on his father cleaning up his messes, ascends the throne after his father has fallen. Leading blindly, the son divides his kingdom in the name of uniting it and rules with an iron fist, condemning those who seek to see the kingdom prosper and rewarding his faithful in the greatest act of nepotism ever seen. Manipulating a national tragedy for his own political gain, the son seeks to expand the kingdom and his rule by invading a nation that had once pitted his father's rule against it in hopes of killing his father. The son wields his divine support wildly and destroys those who seek to tell the truth; the truth that holds the key to victory. While leading his kingdom to war unprepared, another national tragedy strikes the son's kingdom. The son turns a blind eye against his own people in the name of God and country only to see his war of choice fail miserably. In an act of shame and humililty, the son conjures up his father's ghost to bring about a resolution to his failed war. The ghost of the father returns to his once strong kingdom and bestows great words of wisdom to his son, who upon hearing them, gouges his eyes and ears with the tongues of synchophants. As he lay dying in a pool of his own blood, the son takes to heart what the ghost of father told him, which were, in fact, the same words he told his once great kingdom years before when he himself warred with the enemy lands:

"DON'T INVADE IRAQ, YOU STUPID ASSHOLE!!!!"