If these evil scum are sitting at the base of the mountain they would be sitting ducks for a drone strike. ................... We could entertain the Yazidis on the mountain with a Arc Light show at the base, where they can watch the IS insurgents flying in the air.
Several things are perhaps becoming apparent to more people, that have been apparent to many of us for a while now. All of these awful events follow logically from wrong choices made in Libya, Syria and (for some in our western world) the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Obviously, we should have left good enough alone in Libya and Syria and backed their leaders, rather than meddling and creating power vacuums that very dangerous forces have easily begun to dominate.
Now we are making the wrong choice in not striking with lethal force at ISIS. They should be lured into a trap and wiped out, at least to the 80 or 90 per cent level, and then maximum vigilance should follow to track and eliminate any remnants. Just turning away and letting them run amok like this is inevitably going to lead to massive bloodshed and it may spill out into regions such as Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and then into the partially autonomous or occupied territories around Israel.
It sounds very much like a scenario like Armageddon and thus perhaps we cannot intervene to stop that which is inevitable. However, I don’t believe we can design foreign policy around interpretations of Biblical prophecy. We need to do the right thing now and worry about the longer term prophetic significance when urgent problems have been addressed.
Here we see the imminent slaughter of many thousands of complete innocents. Whatever we think of this religious group, they are innocents and apparently without much support from any other groups. If there’s forty thousand of them, that is not such a huge number that the western world could not easily absorb them, perhaps in several different places.
If the administration responds and does something then in this one case I believe we as conservatives should hold our fire and support what they do, if it seems effectual. But if not, it needs to be considered that the administration is so out of touch with global realities that some kind of adult supervision or “intervention” option should be considered by the Congress. Impeachment would be too slow a process to solve these problems in the short time that is probably left to avert a huge human catastrophe.
American leadership would seem to be required but perhaps there again, six or seven other NATO countries could manage this task, and the most likely nations to offer leadership at this point might be Britain and Canada. Perhaps those countries should start thinking about how they could take on ISIS with or without the United States. This seems rather like 1914 all over again.