I'm going. Who knows, it may do some good. Here are some inspiring quotes mostly from recent Iraqi and other Middle Eastern poets.

"America: Let's exchange gifts…
give us Walt Whitman's beard filled with butterflies.
Take Saddam Hussein
and give us Abraham Lincoln
or give us no one. "
-----Saadi Youssef, Iraqi poet

"all born in the shadow of bombs/ Shall become bombs"
----Rashid Husain

"Friend, the night has slain the moon./ In the mirror of my face you can find no shelter/ only my country's disfigured face."
---Fadwa Tuqan,
Palestinian Poet

"for the poor die twice, defending two countries:/ poverty and their master's land"
-----Mamdouh Udwan, Syrian Poet

"beloved stranger! Why did my country become a gateway to hell?"
---Fadwa Tuqan

"My son smells of peace when I lean over him./ It isn't just the soap./Everybody was once the child with the smell of peace."
---Yehuda Amichai, Israeli Poet

"The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason./ The passionless can not change history." ---Czeslaw Milosz, Polish Nobel winner.