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I wish I was North Korean (Arabic poem)
The poem is not in Classical or Modern Standard Arabic, so machine translation will struggle with it and produce incoherent text.
Here's a few verses of it translated to give you a feel of it and where it is heading. It is written by a Jordanian poet in the Jordanian Bedouin dialect. It is from 2003 in response to the invasion of Iraq and the Arab's weakness and failure to stop it:
I wish I was a North Korean
Standing tall and head is held high
Humiliating Bush the idiot
Stomping his head with my sandals
I wish I was a North Korean
He [Kim Jong-il] did not submit or collaborate
Or he was frightened and forced to compromise
Or submit and cooperate
My head is like mountains
I wish I was North Korean
He [Kim Jong-il] said: "I have a [nuclear] reactor for you
Produces thousands of bombs
And their range reaches New York
You fool, son of a fool
I wish I was North Korean
I will burn you in the middle of your house
You and those who participated in the war
Don't think I am [Hosni] Mubarak
Or Saddam with my idiocy"
I wish I was North Korean
I very much enjoyed that, interesting stuff.