feckless

five times, our Congress voted to make war
a meager tally over all these years
it's not our legislators who are more
inclined to launch us in that vale of tears
executives see opportunity
to rally fresh-faced youths around their flags
then practice their ersatz sanctimony
when one in five comes home in body-bags
but manufacturers wax fat on arms
and markets multiply when there is strife
their own sons aren't in the path of harm
let someone else's boy pay with his life
since "Schechter Poultry" they can't delegate
but neither do they deign to legislate