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To: koan who wrote (283177)	11/17/2015 7:12:30 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541791

he was persecuting Sunnie he drove them to Isis. He didn't "drive them to ISIS," Koan. They are ISIS. The heart of ISIS is composed of members of Saddam's army and bureaucracy. Apparently, they became "radicalized" while in prison, got tired of Maliki's and Shia vengeance, and they rebelled. We have to undo what the British and French did after WWI. It would have been so much easier if they had actually had the good of those people in mind. But they didn't. Probably, they couldn't have had that mindset, I don't know, but they were still filled with the imperial, colonizing mindset, and there was all that energy there. So they set it up so that they could control the area, which they did for a short time. But now we reap the consequences. So it goes. I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night. Accurate scholarship can Unearth the whole offence From Luther until now That has driven a culture mad, Find what occurred at Linz, What huge imago made A psychopathic god: I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. W.H. Auden September 1, 1939 the rest of the poem at poemdujour.com