Roosting Raptors

When firebrand preacher Jeremiah Wright declared that America's chickens were coming home to roost, he was reflexively bashed by many armchair "patriots" who hadn't a clue what the pastor was talking about. The U.S. supported Osama bin Laden and the Mujahideen in their insurgency against the Russians in Afghanistan (sequela, 9/11). The U.S. sided with dictator Saddam Hussein in his prolonged lethal conflict with Iran (sequela, Bush's War). The U.S. propped up the despotic regime of Iran's Shah Palahvi (sequela, an extremist theocracy bent on acquiring nuclear weapons). When America's chickens come home to roost, they return as raptors!