Shame, and Politics

Beware the local honey trap.  Alas,
The woman needn’t be a foreign spy
Or working for the government, denying
Whistleblowing men a final pass
To spread their key intelligence.  The man
Is someone I admired; I had read
His praises written long by men who said
They’d follow him to hell, that any plan
That brought Iraq to life again was his.
And though the bad finagling of all
That fear his resignation is appalling,
There is naught remaining here that isn’t
Minor when against a hero, down,
And quitting ere his actions make him drown.