The problem is pike: <br />someone dropped <br />a pair in the lake, <br />and these savage predators <br />are multiplying, <br />eating all the other fish, <br />whose natural habitat this is. <br /> <br />Your mind is a vast, vast net. <br />You throw it and its resources <br />into the lake <br />to try to surround all the pike. <br /> <br />If you leave even two <br />they'll infest the whole place again. <br />Then you'll cast your net once more, <br /> <br />maybe a bigger net, <br />to try to get it around <br />the whole problem <br />once and for all. <br /> <br />It's hard to tell, each time— <br />you can boast of success at first. <br /> <br />Sooner or later, though, <br />it will be obvious to all: <br />the pike will be gone, <br />or only pike will remain. <br />____<br /><br />Max Reif<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/analogy-president-bush-and-iraq/
