Today before
off to a vacation in Martha’s Vineyard these words we heard
Our CinC on
the lawn announced we are providing military assistance to the Kurds
A few
questions from the press but no one asked anything about the aid
News reports
in the past have been the Kurds pleading to buy but US forbade
Obama for several
years has hid behind the fiction of an Iraqi unified sovereign state
Refused to
sell to the Kurds, now facing ISIS with abandoned US arms knocking on their
gates
Ironic that
the only way until perhaps today the Kurds would see U.S. arms
Is from a
closing distance in the hands of ISIS seeking to inflict great harm
While
overhead Operation Gnat or Operation Pinprick targets its own made arms
Only two
sorties not anywhere near the shock and awe alarm
We spend
millions to waste money on a government headed by a man who can only divide
The reason
why the Iraqis will not fight and why there is the flooding ISIS tide
Yet the one
group in Iraq, the Kurds, their pleas for arms Obama chose to ignore
We owe the
Kurds our support; after all we urged them to revolt after the first Gulf War
Then sat
idly by
Hussein’s
choppers allowed to fly
Thousands of
Kurds were slaughtered based a belief
That in
revolting against Saddam the U.S. would provide some relief.
We did not
until the second Gulf War when we removed Hussein
Today we
witness our efforts in rebuilding the Iraqi washed down the drain
Obama was to
the point and absolutely right
Like South
Vietnam under Diem, under Maliki’s divisiveness the Iraqi Army will not fight
The Kurds
will and the heavy weapons we should supply
Will be used
against ISIS and will be left only when the Kurds manning them die
If you are
going to create a safe corridor for the mountaintop refugees
Nothing like
tanks and artillery in Kurd hands and napalm on the ISIS to let them flee
Our CinC needs
to act soon as winter is fast approaching to seal these innocents’ doom
A mountain
top is not where in freezing 50,000 we should allow to be entombed
August 8,
2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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