and ted said, 'you've got to look at it our waynit's text book: people don't give in, you have to dominate.'nso we strike first and furiousnand offer more sophisticated colonialism with a kind name.ncall in the regulars: for-profit consulting firms, engineers, NGOs and UN aid.nbut if it happens at all, the work is too slow, too short, and too late.nlocals shut out by expense-account foreigners who know best how to structure a local government,nbut can't get from one side of town to the other.nninstead there's a world bank ready to hand out to the desperate they know can't repay.nthere are teams of old gray men passing along an inherited dream of some long lost golden boys,ncalling every struggle romantic and every victory just.n'democracy builders' with puffed chests telling tall tales of who we wish we were.nour sins aren't so originalnand you can invest in my bones and it will return bittersweet again and again and againnnso let's take it two steps at a time, as they take one and walk right by.nby ballot or by bullet, we're coming for you,nand by ballot or by bullet, our day is coming.nwe've got pockets full of days and i think that yours are numbered.