Suggested Strategy Against ISIS

As Christians there is a thought to turn the other cheek

But not now, not never when terrorists the destruction of our way of life seek

Kayla Mueller whose faith was a beacon for her goals  

Only wanted to bring hope and love to impoverished souls
Yet she was seized by ISIS and then died
ISIS a band of savages that the rules of humanity no longer abides

ISIS and the rest of the Radical Islamic mob

Are trying to the world’s civilized values rob

How can any Hindu, Muslim, atheist, agnostic, or Buddhist allow these vermin to continue to exist?

It is time for the civilized world to these fanatics resist

Any ideology that beheads civilians and burns a prisoner alive

Cannot if we are to remain human be allowed to survive

Maybe we have already lost our humanity if beheadings and a burning have become jihadist recruiting tools

How can we show these wanna-be martyrs that they are misguided fools?

We can continue to drone the fighters; but how the flow of new fighters to stem?

How about side by side videos of beheadings with mullahs there to condemn?

Mullahs proclaiming that to these barbarians the gates to Paradise are locked?

Strip away the false promises these idiots have managed to concoct

Marketing 101 on the social media anti terrorist scene

Show the ISIS fighters bleaching in the Sun and attraction one might wean

Show the mothers of the misguided adherents to the ISIS cause

Wailing over the deaths of their sons from American shock and awe

Show the refugees' plight and the efforts of the Kaylas of the world  to allay

Show the gratitude of the suffering who with her help made it through another day

Better yet interview on social media the young women who these fighters choose to reject

In favor of those staying home not fighting as a lover they would rather select.

We still need military force to alter this barbaric course

But we also need to enter the social media wars with mind winning YouTubes and discourse

Abdullah II has thrown down the gauntlet to the last drop of fuel and the last bullet round

Time for us to finally form a strategy to turn this disaster facing us around

© February 11, 2015 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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