The reports
from Kerry’s meeting with Maliki do not impress
Billions
spent on the Iraqi Army and it has only two Cessna’s to ISIS suppress
It seems
like only yesterday when the Highway of Death showed convoys charred
Helicopters
and planes the Iraqi flight from Kuwait by missiles and cannons barred
It seems
like only yesterday that after the Gulf War peace had been declared
The Kurds
and Sunnis rose up against Saddam with dreams of independence to share
While we sat
on our hands, Saddam’s choppers brought down death from the sky
Killing
thousands who thought the U.S. would protect them and not let them die
Where did
all the chopper pilots go; why did they disappear?
ISIS in captured
Humvees and trucks in the open have had a lot to fear
Only two
Cessnas--makes you wonder what was going through our minds
Or is this
just another case of the Iraqis stealing us blind
Obama may
not have wanted to intervene in Syria to avoid another Iraq
He still has
Syria against its citizens on the brutal attack
Worse he has
another Iraq in full on Civil War mode
With a
leader we supported who will not share the governing load
Worse he has
an ISIS border now with Jordan that could be next on the ISIS list
A Caliphate
expanding to on Israel’s border too soon to exist
Knowing our
past performance, the lessons learned in Iraq in Afghanistan will be missed
We cannot
nation build; only look out for the U.S. as the generals’ warnings will be
dismissed
It seems
like only yesterday many years ago when JFK decided Diem had to go
He refused;
so we sponsored his execution followed by years of American blood to flow
It seems
like only yesterday our CIA had good results at least for a time when regime
change it enforced
Now we sit
trying to convince a ruler to include, fiddling while this ISIS jihad continues
to run its course.
© June
23, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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