No War! No Peace!
Amdetsion Kidane
February 21, 2000

My spirit soared
By the words that roared
For a minute and no more
Heralding the news "No war!"

In that emotional time stint
I flew home with elevated spirit
To express my heart-felt emotion
Of ecstasy with jubilation
To cousins, brothers and sisters
Uncles, aunts and intimate friends
Bereaved of loved ones already
"No more sacrifice for anybody."

But after the fantasy trip home
Something out of sync out of norm
In the same breath that heralded "No war!"
Echoed "No peace!" for a minute more
Leaving me confused about the message
A Woyane had uttered with arrogance and rage.

Perplexed by what I had heard
I wanted to know what Boole had said
When contradicting statements such as these
Are uttered in the same breadth at will and ease.
What connector to use to make them sensible
And start disengagement as soon as possible.

I referred to books - simple and advanced
Reliable school notes that I had ready at hand
To check the link that I might had missed
And render face change that the slogans need
To make them logical as Boole would have suggested.

To be honest though, if we really think,
What is missing is not a mathematical link
But a Woyane heart clean of evil and malice
Sensitive to human suffering and sacrifice
And desire to solve the problem to live in peace.

So long that such a heart and desire do not exist
We have no choice but prepare for the worst
To defend our sovereignty with dedication
As we did in the past surprising nations.

Sincerely,

Amdetsion Kidane,
Springfield, VA

Note:
George Boole was an English mathematician and logician who lived in 1815-64. The AND and OR operation that we use in information search in the Internet is based on his mathematical contribution. Allow me to briefly describe these two operations so that we would see the meaninglessness or fallacy of the Woyane slogan. "No War! No Peace!" connected by AND means that any common attribute between the two slogans would occur. But the two slogans are mutually exclusive making their simultaneous occurrence impossible. On the other hand, when the slogans, "No war! No peace!" are connected by OR, either war or peace or both would occur which again makes it senseless when the occurrence of both is invoked. This, however, shows lack of sincerity in the Woyanes' endeavor to solve the problem rather than lack of knowledge or understanding of this simple mathematical theory.