Second Airstrikes Against ISIL 300 Yashidi Women Taken Kurds Need Arms

In Iraq the nightmare of Boko Haram War on Woman repeats

ISIL drags off 300 Yashidi women for most likely as sexual treats

Christians and Yashidis in Northern Iraq flee ISIL to avoid a despicable choice

Convert to Islam, pay a fine, or die while we in the name of jihad we rejoice

Finally Obama partially listens to the jayvees giving us a wake up call

That a small well organized and thanks to us equipped group may cause Iraq to fall

In the North where the Kurds have been pleading for arms to no avail

Against ISIL armed with tanks and artillery Kurds armed with rifles may soon fail

A region or country can fall; ripples of turmoil against our interests can spread

But Obama will not act until public outcry of genocide of a potential 50,000 dead

Two F-18 jets yesterday dropped laser bombs on an artillery piece that was Erbil trying to shell

News reports is that the strike blew the jihadists back to their Paradise Hell

Today in another surgical strike, a drone took out a mortar lube

Killing another crew of jihadist fanatical rubes

Two more jets took on a seven vehicle convoy

Several vehicles were quickly destroyed

Pin pricks, gnat bites, a Rolling Thunder on terror not even remotely like

The Kurds besieged wait with baited breath for the next air strike

Obama’s demeaning of ISIL early as jayvees while they were holding their breath

On the road in convoys that a resolute CinC could have turned into a Highway of Death

Means the problem has exploded, become more complex and quick fixes now defy

Maybe too late even if the Iraqis replace one of the root causes--Al- Maliki

Poets should always inspire and suggestions to leaders avoid

But a few simple suggestions to get us out of this void

A student of history will tell you that South Vietnam was in a Diem induced revolt

Buddhists in self flames and the army at the drop of punji stick ready to bolt

Kennedy realized that Diem like Maliki could not govern and backed a coup

But the generals went over the line and the Diem brothers they deposed and then slew

Maliki must go and if he somehow manages to stay

A division of Iraq into three should come into play

A student of history will remember that we after Gulf War I urged a revolt of the Kurds

Without Stingers, they were slaughtered by the thousands by Hussein’s war birds

Kurds have shown unwillingness for centuries against adversity to turn tail

But unless we start providing heavy arms against ISIl swatting American gnats they will fail

The alternative is to force a coalition government and put advisors on the ground

Assuming with a coalition government that the Iraqi army will come around

But the Obama Doctrine of once an American boot leaves contested ground

In a complete withdrawal, it will never, ever come back down

Means that option which in the long term might be best

Will never happen, will never be put to the test

© August 8, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet