Betrayed ... Again

People sharing a history and geography
are never so betrayed by others as
when their vulnerable naivete is
rewarded by the blank canvas of
indifference when the interests of
those others compete with justice
and trust is misplaced as it has been
for thirty million Kurds whose fate it
was to view as honour-bound greater
forces equipped with modern weaponry
promising to award them the assurance
of their heritage sovereignty. Men and
women alike, fiercely protective of
their own and extending haven to
other exploited and threatened people
their courage is  unchallenged, their
thirst for justice universal. On the
front line of defense against a world
threat of murderous proportions they
proved their mettle in sacrifice and
determination to succeed where all
others failed, eradicating the viral
menace of an ideology of destruction
and atrocities striking terror into the
hearts of the world community. That
steadfast people, warriors all for the
common global weal, now reap the
reward the world is prepared to grant
them; not quite their heart's desire of
recognizing their rightful, unchallenged
nationhood in sovereign territory long
theirs yet held by others, but through a
gesture granting them the sole custodian
authority of the dread terrorists defeated
on the battlefield whom the world fears
to reclaim as their own responsibility.