Iraq gets more confusing each and
every day
As the army, flees Shiite
volunteers join the fray
Our President playing golf is still
MIA
How much longer can we afford a
policy against jihad to delay?
Not sure how this sectarian war
will play
Only that we should have had some
forces in country to stay
Boots on the ground--some sense of
reason to Maliki sway
The Shiites in response to a
mullah's calls
Are surging into Baghdad to ISIS
try to stall
While the Kurds are building
against ISIS their own walls
Iraq, created by the stroke of an
English pen
Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds at each
other’s throats again
Ten percent of the world’s oil and
humanitarian concerns
Add in a potential breeding ground
for jihadist terror to return
And you have a crisis that should
cram the Situation Room
Not having a President on a cart
while implosion of Iraq looms
At least we have a carrier within
easy striking reach of ISIS convoys on a road
But with no observers on the ground
our smart bombs are now dumb iron loads
But the specter of the fall of
Saigon and the images of choppers pushed over into the sea
Is a trauma that no American would
ever again on TV wish to see
The silver lining in this botched
mess,
Another example of a failed
Presidency in a foreign policy mess
Is that the fanatics of ISIS are so
brutal beheading Muslims by the score without remorse
That the Sunnis themselves, if
Maliki were to step down and follow a coalition governing course,
Would turn on them with a vengeance
and drive them from Sunni cities and towns
For ISIS spilling blood like no tomorrow
would in it surely and quickly drown
But no more our President asleep at
the wheel
We have too many serious problems
with which leadership must deal.
Carter lost his presidency due to
the American hostages held captive in Iran
Obama will lose his legacy due to
not enough leadership and too much time in the rough or mired in the pits of sand
© June 15, 2014 Michael P. Ridley
aka the Alaskanpoet
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