At What Expense?

Your enemy swell from apparent voiced weakness
 Propaganda offered on a plate you concede
 Not wanting to face, obvious dangers
 Turning your back, on rage and hatred 

Naively evolving judgment, placing blame where you can
 Human nature eludes you, unaffected by others actions
 Innocent analysis, simple view of the world
 Ideological objectives, priority over conflict 

Burying your head in sand, safe and sound
 Acknowledgment of the treat, you contradict
 The way the world should be, hollow dream
 Strength and power of the hour gone
 Will prevail, no substitute for gallantry
 Courage to face something menacing
 Prepared, the boldness to confront your foes
 Recognize, daring to defy your peril 

Bewilderment abundant
 Among rational witnesses
 Marginalizing treats, doesn't make the less bona fide
 Pandering your platitudes
 To a furious adversary, cowering to enemies builds consensus
 Obsessed in the belief 

Unfathomable viewpoint, needing others' adoration
 Mystifying concept, compassion keeps you secure 

Baffling contemplation, saying please gets results
 Adolescent notion that philosophy disarms 

The conscientious objector, preaching to the populace
 The pacifist religion, perception of the immature
 The antiwar constitutes, bowing to their dogma
 The indoctrinating mentors, seeding the inexperienced
 Hijack your defense, expose vulnerability
 The vice of beseeching, gratification in frailty
 Further spreading support of vacating campaigns
 No burden to explain your puzzling outlook
 Must have confidence-in their sincerity
 You have assurance-the enemy is harmless
 They are trustworthy-despite the wickedness
 It's an illusion 

Why defend yourself through dialogue is power
 Stated goal your death, room for compromising
 Start with concession, surrendering advantage
 Conceding any guilt irrelevant of fact 

Open hand of peace, commence cooperation
 No need for caution, now that we are affable
 All historical grievance, wiped away over night
 Astonished by attack, considering harmony 

Burying your head in sand, safe and sound
 Acknowledgment of the treat, you contradict
 The way the world should be, hollow dream
 Strength and power of the hour gone
 Will prevail, no substitute for gallantry
 Courage to face something menacing
 Prepared, the boldness to confront your foes
 Recognize, daring to defy your peril