Changing Times [Fawcett #21] (Matthew 22:33-34; 23:12; James chapter 4)
When times have changed (geography
Dictates in part how war will be
Conducted, not tradition’s way),
You’d best accept such change today.What’s your first clue? How ’bout a loss
Or two, in which excessive cost
Is born with no strategic gain,
Or victories where other’s tamed.Majuba Hill was such a route –
Advantage gained through height no doubt,
Was lost – assumptions of their power
Did not hold up in battle’s hour.In red, as sitting ducks on hill,
Of rock – picked off by snipers ’till
The route took place, three-fifty men
Wiped out – the Britts had lost again.But why were they on hill at all?
Two hundred years of standing tall
Behind a set of bigger guns,
Had made the Britts the blinded ones –For power corrupts, and big fish eat
The little fish as meal or treat,
Then think they’re biggest on the block,
’Till up some hill by night they walk.They lost the battles, lost the war
(But later came back here for more);
James said our wars are fought to gain,
(Then arrogance defeats their aim).navigation