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Circumstantial Evidence

Uncertain cause of participation
Absorbs time to determine and survey
Depleting our resource dispensation
Before we find out who we must purvey

During exhaustive conflicts which will come
If adversaries react as we would
Where effort excedes the apparent sum
Because we force to work others who could

Even if they do not intend to learn
We find that we can always force train them
Offering slaggards quick death or slow burn
To work quickly in the midst of mayhem

Wasting war resources bridges treason
Building petty kingdoms can't be allowed
Personal vendettas for no reason
These modes must be crushed and then disallowed

Surrender can't manifest our presence
Others must fight until rescue occurs
Though their own past won't find this essence
No power on earth such action deturs

Victory is too certain when we try
Unjust missions lead to innovations
In which too many innocents then die
When we appear beyond death's sensations

(c)ERA
08:17 AM 1/30/03