{"id":1778,"date":"2019-10-13T06:38:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T10:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2019-12-22T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T19:57:26","slug":"erdogans-advance-alexander-manzoni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lineriderpress.com\/headlinepoetry\/2019\/10\/13\/erdogans-advance-alexander-manzoni\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan\u2019s Advance | Alexander Manzoni"},"content":{"rendered":"

by<\/span> Alexander Manzoni<\/a><\/span>, Elections Correspondent\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>

Don\u2019t turn your back on your allies.
Their cries, they resounded alongside our own, on the war-torn Middle Eastern battlefronts.
Now, they are to be cut short.<\/em>
We are clearing out
to make room for Erdo\u011fan and his autocratic armies\u00a0
and they are ready to unleash HELL <\/em>upon the Kurds.
They<\/em>\u2014 who remained by our side\u00a0
while Assad rained down bombs and missiles, chemical attacks.

War crimes:<\/em>
Chlorine. Sarin. Mustard.<\/em>

Not the kinds of condiments we <\/em>want at our global table.<\/em>
We are able to do something, yet we capitulate\u2014\u00a0
and our president continues<\/em> to confer with Putin, the dastardly deviant dog.

And we are losing<\/em>.\u00a0
ARE WE TIRED OF SO MUCH WINNING?<\/em>

Yet the propaganda, it keeps telling us otherwise.
The skies above Syria fill <\/em>with the coming darkness.
An advance, Turkish, we are clearing the way to make room for more atrocities.
These cities, they will be purged of life. <\/em>Purged of love. Purged of hope.

We have backpedaled on ourselves\u2014 on our own truth.<\/em>
We declared victory, upon ISIS.\u00a0
Yet it seems that we <\/em>are the ones who\u2019ve been vanquished.
Why else<\/em> would we run?
We are still in Iraq\u2014 still in Afghanistan.<\/em>
What\u2019s one more war in the Middle East, to us?
Who is going to want to trust us? We are turncloaks.\u00a0
Yet we profess our disgust for treacherous figures such as Benedict Arnold.

We hold the world in our hands.
But our leader is too foolish <\/em>and ignorant <\/em>to fully realize
all the implications\u2014 \u2018tis but a game, to he.
Where will we be come November 2020?
Hopefully at the polls, casting our votes.
Let us be rid of this joke\u2014 it stopped being funny LONG AGO.<\/em>

Who will you follow on this long-winding road?<\/em>
Know that our very souls<\/em>, they hang <\/em>in the balance.<\/p>

 <\/p>

inspired by<\/strong> <\/span>America’s choice to withdraw troops from Syria, and the resulting Turkish-led violence that ensued.\u00a0\u00a0<\/h5>
NOTE: This is a simplified format of submitted poem.<\/h6>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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