MESSAGE FROM A TERRORIST

By Guest Author Tom Greening

We knew we could count on you

to continue our mission for us.

We destroyed your World Trade Center

but that was only a dramatic means

to a greater end.

We knew you rich and industrious Americans

would soon rebuild the towers

bigger and better.

Our more ambitious goal

was to expose your barbarism

behind your pretense

of practicing humanitarian justice:

We got you to reveal your depravity

and become torturers.

At Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib,

at dark sites, we seduced you

into destroying yourselves

as moral human agents.

Tom Greening was educated at Yale, the University of Vienna, and the University of Michigan. He has been a psychologist in private practice for over 50 years, and is a retired professor from Saybrook University, UCLA, and Pepperdine. He was Editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology for 35 years. He is a Fellow of five divisions of the American Psychological Association and Poet Laureate of the International Society for Ethical Psychology and Psychiatry.