Posted on 08/07/2014 12:23:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin
U.S. President Barack Obama is considering airstrikes and emergency relief airdrops to help 40,000 religious minorities in Iraq who are trapped on a mountaintop after threats by Islamic militants, the New York Times reported on Thursday.
Obama has been looking at a range of options, from dropping humanitarian supplies on Mount Sinjar to military strikes on fighters from the Islamic State who are at the base of the mountain, a senior administration official told the newspaper.
The Islamic State's Sunni militants, an offshoot of al Qaeda who have swept across northwestern Iraq in recent weeks, have even come within a 30 minutes drive of the Kurdish capital of Arbil. They inflicted a humiliating defeat on Kurdish forces over the weekend and prompting tens of thousands from the ancient Yazidi community to flee the town of Sinjar for surrounding mountains.
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Let’s all go down to the golf course and watch Barry mull!
I don't believe a word of what they print.
Hope he doesn’t let them die of thirst before he “decides”.
I doubt he’s mulling much, while he and Reggie play hide the salami.
By the time he makes up his mind, they’ll all be dead.
Barry is “concerned”. “Five iron, please”
He always mulls, but never makes an actual decision.
“Bumps in the road”
“Less than optimal”
“Now back to my vacation.”
Weighing, mulling, examining, observing, but not developing a plan of action and following it. “Mulling” makes it appear as though he is working when he is actually playing golf or getting loaded.
You’d better have boots on the ground distributing the goods or else you’re going to have a lot of people killed fighting over the scraps.
He was “mulling” back then, too.
Good question.
If it was up to me — we would send in waves of planes dropping cluster bombs on ISIS before doing anything else.
The only thing being considered is what will be best to politically bash the republicans and further his agenda. But that’s second in his priority list right now. There’s a vacation to plan.
The only thing he’s mulling is what lukewarm platitude to use for the situation.
...should he act on the muslim "rebels" which is doubtful.
Better yet, Barack can send that guy that served in Vietnam to the middle east to meet w/ Qatar & Turkey to broker a cease-fire with ISIS!
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