Dirty Wars- The World Is a Battlefield
Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Largest Mercenary Army shed light
On how the US its battles now fight
Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield exposes on the other hand
The clandestine workings of the Joint Strategic Operations Command*
London’s Guardian correspondent Jerome Starkey
Reported the initial ghastly story
Jeremy Kelley captured the grim scene
Identifying the culprits for posterity
In Gardez Afghanistan Rowley and Scahill found
evidence of mysterious clandestine forces on the ground
of innocents massacred during a celebration
without a moments hesitation
By bearded and muscled troops
Who took the time their bullets to recoup
Who into their innocent victims’ bodies irreverently dug
To recover each last slug
Two pregnant women and a police commander
The latter trained by us and a long-time government supporter
The initial coverup story’s script
Was captured on a cell phone video clip
Later the story was amended –it was an accident
And into the scene of the crime was sent
A group of soldiers most craven
Including the leader identified as Adm. William McRaven
Who in an act of seeming contrition
Had brought a goat to sacrifice on the exact location
At the scene of their horrific crime
Hoping the incident would disappear with time
But thanks to the video and the book
Dirty Wars has provided a look
Into the clandestine forces causing collateral damage
And generating more enemies than we can manage
Next in Yemen we must decry
Seven cruise missiles raining death down from the sky
forty-six people in Al-Majalah blasted to smithereens
By a General Dynamics Tomahawk missile killing machine
Initially the Yemeni government claimed responsibility
But Abdulaleh Heider Shaye reported with great credulity
The United States was really at fault and in error
As Obama refines Bush’s global war on terror
This brave journalist paid a great price for reporting the truth
Hasseled, imprisoned for months, released, then locked up tight
By a single call from our assassin in chief flexing his might
And behind it all calling the shots is JSOC.
Targeted assassinations of foreigner are bad enough
But Dirty Wars exposes the extrajudicial killing of
Anwar Al Awlaki an American citizen
And incredulously a few weeks later
His innocent 16 y/o son
Now we know JSOC teams abound
Knocking down doors and killing the world around
Killing mostly innocents
Recruiting enemies in escalating numbers
Howard P. Charman, MD 5-10-2015
*JSOC: Joint Special Operations Command: …America’s secret army” …. see Google.
Comment 3-17-2022: Happened many years ago, but still relevant to our present situation. Impunity is the word that describes our age. HC