A
vehicle with a Red Cross or Red Crescent on display means life saving help was
on its way
But
not in Kabul where in an ambulance driven by a Taliban was coming not to help
but to maim and slay
Packed
to the gills with explosive into one of the more “secure” areas of Kabul
Enroute
to a hospital, sirens maybe howling through checkpoints not able to withstand
the Paradise Virgins’ pull
103
innocents blown up in an instance into smithereens
With
150 ready for triage by medics racing to the scene
So
hard to imagine how families can in any since of peace try to live
When
the Taliban fueled by a sick ideology has so many jihadis with lives to give
More
soldiers, more drones, more intel, more warthogs
Will
not I fear make any reduction in the jihadists’ daily death log
Only
when all Muslim schools and clerics
Sunni or Shia speaking loudly and firmly as one
No
Muslim seeking Paradise can kill another Muslim is the only way this war may be
one
We
cannot kill our way of this mess nor the killings of innocent prevent or stall
A
porous border that makes ours look like it is protected by another 21st
Century Great Wall
A
city in mourning, a city in fear and
dread and despair
And
still no condemnations beamed down from the minarets standing high into the air
©
January 28, 2018 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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