HOW DO YOU MEASURE SUCCESS?

This whole Iraq fiasco looks like a mess to me
It might look better if I had spent years fantasizing
about WW IV... the war to last for all time.

Would I change my definition of success
from progress and healing to capturing
or killing the enemy?

Would I try to hide my glee
when actions that grew out of my policies
multiplied our enemies?

I taste the bile of suffering and agony
and wonder if this would taste sweeter
if I could profit from it until the end of time.