6760. ISLAMIC STATE IS WINNING IN IRAQ

'ISLAMIC STATE IS 

WINNING IN IRAQ'

So sorry we have to be going : leave your

head at the door while Allah is doing the dishes.

I have a casserole here that we can eat. The

few tents left will be distributed across the

dumb desert, while elderly camels are waiting

by the tanks. This diminishes the afterlife

not by one whit, and I believe we shall still

yet get to Heaven. We can kill the infidels later

The scent is so sweet, and God is so good.

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Words escape me in this dusty heat : the oasis, 

is it, which forms to the right will be faded away

by dusk  -  yet you say I'll still be here with a weapon

and a breast in my hand? How strange. All those

beautiful maidens and you can only bring me this?

The scent is so sweet, and God is so good.

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[*Do you note the title, with 'The' (NYTimes, lead-line, 5.20.15).
One cannot say 'The Islamic State is winning in Iraq', because to date
there is NO Islamic State. That is simply what they call themselves.
Islamic State, with no 'The' at all.]  gary