like an old friendship? Don't Americans wonder why the United States is bombing its own country?

The answer is reassuring. It is not an invasion, it is a peacekeeping mission. To address its domestic problems, the United States, as the world's peacekeeper, is using pinpoint bombing to eliminate pockets of poverty in its own inner cities.

But studies show that most Americans aren't aware their country is at war. In some bohemian neighborhoods, where it is chic to be killed in a discotech bombing, air strikes are simply another thing that makes city life exciting and unpredictable.

To reduce collateral damage and friendly fire, the Pentagon is using helicopters to overfly target sectors dropping poetry warning of the evils of poverty.

"Real friends don't need money," one optimistic slogan states.

With poetry rapidly gaining the status of a military technology, some form of regulation may be in order in order to lock