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.