The D.T. Playbook: Chapter 7 (Abandoning Your Allies)

Chapter Seven of the D.T. Playbook:

Do not worry if you besmirch

Your country's honor by suddenly leaving

Trusted allies--the Kurds--in the lurch.

 

Although they worked together with you

To fight a common enemy, ISIS,

Their abandonment will leave them

To face an even greater crisis.

 

Provide them with weapons while they assist you.

Then merely say, "Thank you. Good-bye!"

Leaving them to fend for themselves,

To flee their homeland, to suffer, to die.

 

Do not worry if thousands of Kurds

Had lost their lives to help fight your foe.

Turn your head, pretending you can't

Hear the people's cries of woe.

 

Placate a Turkish autocrat

With ethnic cleansing as one of his goals.

Do not fret if experts tell you

That your thoughtless plan has holes.

 

Do not let your people know

Your REAL motives, for you have the knack

Of taking full advantage of others

Before stabbing them in the back.

 

Do not fear if enemy captives

Escape from their prison cells and flee,

Putting more people there and here

In danger as ISIS soldiers run free.

 

Tell everyone how smart you are;

Pat yourself on the back, and then

Do not care that the rest of your allies

Will never be able to trust you again.

 

-by Bob B (10-21-19)