Valiant armchair warriors’ voices shrill
Treasury depleted by trillions
Hapless young soldiers sent to maim & kill
feckless foreigners by the millions
Though that ‘underwear bomb’ blew no hole
the Homeland Industry grows, rocks
A dud as well that ‘bomb in a sole’
still we’re here lined up in our socks
Here’s the ridiculous rub:
no more risk risk to fly
than slipping in your bathtub
Where did we go awry:
Distant countries laid in ruinous states
while TSA pats down our ample waists