Posted on 08/09/2014 12:27:56 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
It’s good to know that the Iraqi forces are doing their own humanitarian effort onto Mount Sinjar where the Yazidis are stranded, instead of just depending on America. In this video from Rudaw, a Kurdish news organization, a reporter goes along with the helicopter that drops off food and water from Iraqi charity services, and shows the danger they have to ward off from ISIS trying to shoot them out of the air.
Watch the video from the Washington Post below:
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Don’t jerk your tears — say your prayers that decent people will finally come to their senses.
Meanwhile enjoy your time on Martha’s Vineyard, Barack.
So sad, and I am glad to see some help is getting to these poor people — but wasn’t too impressed with all those young men scrambling onto the helicopter — they could have put twice as many kids or moms and babies on there instead of those guys.
Same thing with the way the water was distributed to what looked like mostly young-adult males. Human nature being what it is, one water bottle will probably buy him one woman for a night.
Ditto that...
Is Saudi Arabia just going to defend itself now that its tool to defeat Assad is out of control? Every single world player that's been involved in the global game for strategic advantage is responsible.
Beyond disgusted.
I agree God Bless those humanitarian and May God bring his wrath upon those who are doing EVIL!
I can’t stop crying to see how good many of us Christian here in the US are living. Unfortunately, because I hate to say many churches are not speaking out. I feel that day will come to Christians to feel what their brother and sisters have suffered in other nations. I pray that I am wrong.
Chopper took fire, but it looked as though it was manageable. It seems as though that was just a sole, unescorted chopper?
US forces could really do some good there; especially because they could re-supply at night without having to hang their butts out so much.
Too bad Obama cared more about the optics of “getting out” than what his generals were telling him.
It makes me happy, however, to see that the Kurds (video said Kurds, not Iraqis, right?) are doing the human thing and putting any possible religious issues to the side and saying, “hey, those Zoroastrians need our help” and doing something about it.
That one kid hanging in the door was super close to accidentally letting off a burst on that MG straight in the faces of his friends. Watch those hands, bro.
http://acepilots.com/vietnam/saigon_helicopter.jpg..
FWIW, it looks like nobody ever heard of women and children fist in that neck of the woods.
Just sayin’
This is not being reported, even on Fox!
Where can I read about this? It makes no sense to let these people be raped, murdered and the children crucified, and then drop them a few water bottles?????!!!!!
The relief operation should be named, "Operation Martha's Vineyard", since it is being directed from there.
Ok. I do hope Westerners don’t take on the cultural practice of young men first, vs women and children first.
Yikes that’s disturbing
Ugh.
The Yazidi religion is a syncretic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish, Nestorian Christian and Islamic elements. The Yazidi themselves are thought to be descended from supporters of the Umayyad Caliph Yazid 1.
They themselves believe that they are created quite separately from the rest of mankind, not even being descended from Adam, and they have kept themselves strictly segregated from the people among whom they live.
Although scattered and probably numbering fewer than 1,00,000, they have a well-organized society, with a chief shaykh as the supreme religious head and an amir, or prince, as the secular head.
The chief divine figure of the Yazidi is Malak Taus ('Peacock Angel'), worshipped in the form of a peacock. He rules the universe with six other angels, but all seven are subordinate to the supreme God, who has had no direct interest in the universe since he created it. The seven angels are worshipped by the Yazidi in the form of seven bronze or iron peacock figures called sanjaq, the largest of which weighs nearly 700 pounds.
Yazidi are anti-dualists; they deny the existence of evil and therefore also reject sin, the devil, and hell. The breaking of divine laws is expiated by way of metempsychosis, or transmigration of souls, which allows for progressive purification of the spirit. The Yazidi relate that when the devil repented of his sin of pride before God, he was pardoned and replaced in his previous position as chief of the angels; this myth has earned the Yazidl an undeserved reputation as devil worshippers. Shaykh Adi, the chief Yazidi saint, was a 12th century Muslim mystic believed to have achieved divinity through metempsychosis.
Excellent Idea. Let's use it.
I saw only one woman on that flight. What’s wrong with these people? They’re nut Muslim - just Middle Easterners. I guess I answered my own question.
The past regime dropped husbands so the Hussein boys could party with their ex-wives.
This regime drops humanitarian aid.
Some folks think this is not an improvement.
It is though:
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2014/07/23/kelly-file-top-marine-general-amos-criticizes-obama-admins-handling-iraq
Same guy:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/17/gen-james-amos-marine-corps-commandant-slams-obama/
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