The news out
of Iraq gets more confusing each and every day
Now Syrian
planes against ISIS have entered into the fray
While Iraq’s
mortal enemy of the past is ready to send boots
As ISIS
continues its Baghdad march pausing only to prisoners to shoot
As a history
buff, images of Poland in 1939 come to mind
The U.S. is
like the French immobilized glued to their military behinds
Iraq is
being hollowed out by ISIS with Syria and Iran to come in on both sides
Almost like
the one two punches of the Nazis first, then the Red Army tide
We like the
Brits and French are acting like this is the Phoney War unable to act
Save for
more speeches from our CinC as if words will cause aggression to retract
Like the RAF
dropping only leaflets our planes are taking only photographs
ISIS looking
up to the sky totally exposed on the roads is having a great laugh
This is a
chaos that is simply not going to disappear
We should be
wondering when or if ever will American leadership appear?
Instead of
lights burning late in the Pentagon for contingency plans
Our CinC is
spending hour upon hour on climate change and fossil fuels to ban
Instead of
detailed, reasoned, non political options to face this unfolding crisis
It appears
to be fund raising and save the Senate as on to Baghdad marches ISIS
If I were a member
of the House of Saud or a ruler of a Gulf State
I would be
shaking like a leaf in fear pondering what would be my fate
The U.S.
word looks like it is becoming merely words without backbone, a colorful jelly
fish being moved by the tides
No wonder
the Putins and mullahs of the world believe we can only speak and then from our
role try to hide
© June
26, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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