The Villain Villanelle

You take advantage of people’s fear
You tell them to go home and lock the door;
You say the enemy is near.

Until you were forty your companion was beer.
Why shouldn’t we believe there’s more?
Can you really be sincere?

We waste forty billion a year
On a senseless, meaningless war:
You say the enemy is near.

Is that a crocodile tear?
You claimed sympathy for the poor
Can you really be sincere?

Are you as dim as you appear?
It’s the kind of behavior I deplore.
You say the enemy is near.

Our brave troops, the volunteer
Army is dying on a foreign shore.
Can you really be sincere?
You say the enemy is near.

Any comments/suggestions?