The reasonable voice of the appeaser
carried no threat, no ultimatum to its target
holding children, women and men hostage
after a malevolent spree of rape and murder
in its message that it would be very much
appreciated if their victimized hostages were
freed from their daily torment in the hands
of those for whom hatred seeped from their
very pores becoming their reason to exist.
That appeal to reason and humanity was lost
in a bleak fog of alienated savagery impervious
to contrition for sadistic mutilation and slaughter.
Extending the civility of mollifying empathy
even to the cynics of civilizational mores
failed to affect the disaffected. Unlike the more
assertively threatening tone of a pragmatic
leader whose coarse language engaged no
rebuttals, unwilling to cajole or placate a
deadly menace to international law and order
warning non-compliance has its costs and in
this particular case, they would be terrible.
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