Gnat Like Strikes Will Not Deter ISIS Heavy Weapons For The Kurds

ISIS is well armed with American heavy weapons abandoned by the Iraqi armed forces

Kurds have been pleading for weapons for weapons until they are hoarse

What is with our CinC who will not sufficiently arm with heavy weapons against ISIS a true ally?

Why when it comes to this crisis he can only make speeches and dilly dally?

He keeps indicating what he will not do, no boots to be set forth on the ground

World changing but to his campaign promises he remains tightly bound

ISIS may be the result of Maliki’s government of exclusion and is something they must solve

But failing that a news flash for this disengaged President our Homeland safety is involved

Rolling Thunder did not work in Vietnam and Rolling Gnat will not work in Iraq

A sortie here, a sortie there will not destroy the ability of ISIS to attack

Worse ISIS is now a Hamas deployment beginning to cruelly ape

Blend in with women and children to from the American laser bombs escape

Thousands of innocents on a barren mountain top

Face certain death even with our humanitarian drops

While Obama plays golf do we as a nation of conscience sit idly by?

While those innocents if not removed will surely die

Or do we land troops to a corridor open and the innocents extract?

Or do we continue to drop food and water and on their plight turn our back?

Most Americans do not want more combat in Iraq but with ISIS we may have no option

If we do not kill them there we have on our Homeland created a future deadly concoction

Hundreds of Americans have been fighting under the ISIS flag in Iraq

How many will return so easy to their fellow citizens attack?

I for one do not want to hold my breath and wait

Praying that their hatred of American will somehow abate

Time for our CinC to his responsibilities no longer shirk

Time to lead, create a contain and then destroy ISIS policy that will work.

© August 12, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet