Our Pentagon gamed all this out before
the Persian Gulf's no battlefield we'd choose.
Iranians wage asymmetric war
most simulations show we slowly lose.
Tom Jefferson refused to pay a toll
for shipping on a common route at sea
But Trump now put the Persians in control
where we had sent Marines to Tripoli.
Two hundred years, free shipping made us strong
and wealthier than Lydia of yore.
But Trump insists it's we who've got it wrong;
his cronies see more profit waging war.
What Congress hasn't weighed, turns on one man
who  manifestly hasn't got a plan