Posted on 08/07/2014 9:51:42 AM PDT by Hojczyk
An update to Ed’s post this morning about the tens of thousands of Yazidi Kurds forced up onto Mount Sinjar to escape jihadi barbarians. The good news is, help might be on the way:
The president, in meetings with his national security team at the White House on Thursday morning, has been weighing a series of options ranging from dropping humanitarian supplies on Mount Sinjar to military strikes on the fighters from ISIS now at the base of the mountain, a senior administration official said…
The administration had been delaying taking any military action against ISIS until there is a new Iraqi government. Both White House and Pentagon officials have said privately that the United States would not intervene militarily until Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki stepped down.
But administration officials said on Thursday that the crisis on Mount Sinjar may be forcing their hand. About 40 children have already died from the heat and dehydration, according to Unicef, while as many as 40,000 people have been sheltering in the bare mountains without food, water or access to supplies.
The bad news is, Obama and his team have been kicking this idea around for at least two days with no movement yet. George Packer reported yesterday that he’d heard the day before from an administration official that they were weighing an airlift of humanitarian supplies to the Yazidis. Two days later, they’re still weighing it. Presumably, if they’re leaking to the Times now about deliberations, they’re finally planning on acting soon. A UN official told one paper that ISIS’s persecution of the Yazidis may already amount to genocide or crimes against humanity as they’re being exterminated on sight as infidels, without even the option to convert or pay jizya to reside in ISIS-occupied land.
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Press secretary basically said there will be no boots on the ground. I got a real bad feeling about those 40K on the mountain with no escape.
Press secretary basically said there will be no boots on the ground. I got a real bad feeling about those 40K on the mountain with no escape.
Press secretary basically said there will be no boots on the ground. I got a real bad feeling about those 40K on the mountain with no escape.
This is how passive-aggressive people are, unless they are pushed to show what their choice is. Obama’s lack of action indicates his sentiment on this issue. Of course he knows about it, and perhaps quietly applauds the ‘round-up’ in private. Obama’s inaction has become a sin of omission, to some an omission of deed bordering on criminal derilection of duty from the highest officer in our country.
Turkey’s air force is planning strikes on ISIS at the Kurds’ request; maybe that’s part of the hold up in the White House, to see if the military end of this can be outsourced to someone else.
It gets complicated but Ankara is committed to support of the KRG. It appears to me.
This has some interesting information about the current events in Iraq. IMO.
". . . Ankara has entered into energy deals with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), something which has infuriated the central Iraqi government in Baghdad but which has helped the Kurds further build a foundation for their independence [yes true that] Ankara has been so alarmed by the growing Kurdish autonomy [in Syria and tolerated by Syria, I believe] that it reportedly has provided support for [ISIS] in their fight against the Kurdish militia that controls the region [of Syria],which is affiliated with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)." [my emphasis]
more..
". . . the takeover by ISIS in recent days of Mosul and other cities . . . Ankara will likely not only have to deepen its relationship with the KRG . . . but also alter its approach to the Kurds in Syria [I ask: but demand that the Kurds in Syria reject the PKK?]"
more..
"Explains Lehigh University professor and Turkey expert Henri Barkey in an analysis piece on Al-Monitor website: The crisis may force the Turks to rethink some of their policies in Syria. To date, Ankara’s friendship with the Kurds stopped in Iraq; Erdogan and his government have taken an uncompromising position against Syrian Kurds led by the Democratic Union Party of Kurdistan (PYD), an offshoot of the Turkish Kurdish insurgent group the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). The PYD has emerged as the strongest Kurdish group in Syria and has put together an impressive fighting force to defend its territory from both ISIS and the regime. The idea of another autonomous Kurdish region on its borders after the KRG has been anathema to Ankara. Paradoxically, the PYD’s armed elements are some of the only ones that have scored blows against the jihadists. In the face of the ISIS sweep, the PYD and the KRG, which have also had antagonistic relations, appear to be cooperating on defensive measures against ISIS. Turkey may have to reconsider its boycott of the Syrian Kurds to enlarge the anti-ISIS coalition." [my emphasis]
Our scoundrel President will kill every enemy of ISIS in Iraq.
Kill OUR enemy- America’s enemy, not the Emir’s enemy. Unfortunately it is the Emir of Washington deciding whom to kill and whom to save.
He has made his decision.It is consistent with the Koran which is his Rule Book.
When did the Republic of Turkey founded in 1923 slaughter Yazidis?
On the WWII seventy years later thread we’ve been watching the tragedy in Warsaw unfold. The Poles rose up because the Soviets were right outside the city, and Stalin sat there for many weeks and let the Nazis annihilate them.
This smacks of that.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Help the Kurds or worry about golf.
Golf it is....
Obama will sit on the fence again until a Fox News analyst makes the decision for him
How about sending out a few helicopters and evacuating them? So tired of silly debates between fools when there is a quick simple answer. Hell they will all doe of thirst before perverted Washington will do anything. What happened to common sense and compassion?
Obama is many weeks late with air strikes against ISIS/Islamic State. We should have been attacking them as soon as it was known they planned to, or were moving into Iraq from Syria.
A pathetic Obama failure in every aspect of his handing of Iraq.
And Obama, more than any other person, is responsible for the plight of these newest refugees. But he’s ‘considering’ doing something. And he’s been ‘considering’ doing something about Islamic State for weeks now.
There was an FR post only a few hours ago that described the Turkish caliphate pre-1918 and their actions against Armenians and Yazidis and Yazidis against Christian Armenians.
During the ‘73 war Nixon told Golda Meir to use her consumables and that he’d make them good. Later he asked his military adviser how the resupply was going and was told that it was stalled as the air force was fighting with the Navy over what planes to use. He yelled, “Use all the damned planes!”
This is something the president can order to happen in hours. And, hours is all it should take. But this president will first find a consensus and then build a coalition, then set up an exploration committee. By that time they’ll all be dead.
Oh here we go again....mopping up around the fallout from not getting the job done.
Where’s all the Muslim countries and Europe in protecting these people...let alone the Iraq government we’ve heavily funded to carry this out?
Bammy needs to show he’s a hero now I see....this is so fruitless.
The Yazidi Kurds are screwed if the rely on Obama
Yes a google search (without the quotes) for the past week
"site:www.freerepublic.com turkey Armenians Yazidis"
found a FR thread referring to the Ottoman Empire of 100 years ago.
In no way do I intend to provoke an Armenian genocide debate at this time.
I lived and worked in Turkey (in Ankara as a civilian) for a time and I have great respect for the Turks. The Ottoman Empire is no more. Really.
Tens of millions of Turks love their secular constitutional Republic of Turkey and oppose efforts to make Turkey into an Islamist, Sharia Law whatever. When I lived in Turkey it was way before Erdogan and the AK Party.
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