Posted on 07/21/2014 5:10:32 AM PDT by xzins
Christians have fled en masse from Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, abandoning communities that date back to the first centuries of Christianity.
Islamic extremists who now control the city gave Christians until midday Saturday to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death.
According to MidEast Christian News, the IS rulers ordered hospitals to dismiss Christian doctors and female employees. The report says extremists also marked the houses of Christians as "Property of the Islamic State".
By the time the deadline imposed by the Islamic State expired, most Christians were gone. Mosul, where Christianity has existed for nearly 2,000 years, was now virtually "free of Christians".
As Christian families drove out of the city some reported being stopped at IS check points and robbed of gold earrings, cell phones and other valuables.
With their few remaining possessions, most Christians headed for areas in northern Iraq where they would be under the protection of the Kurdish security forces.
Some fled to the town of Qaraqoush, where they found temporary lodging at a monastery.
With all the money we spend on intelligence and the state department, you would think Bush's advisers would have told him Saddam is running Iraq as sanely as one can given what he has to govern. Taking out Saddam is like pulling the finger out of the dyke. We need a small government. We need common sense leadership.
With the neo-cons who STILL clearly have influence within the Republican party and throughout conservative circles (besides Rand Paul) sane foreign policy that you are advocating is a pipe dream.
So long as the Bill Kristol’s of the world get to spew their nonsense on Fox News and the Weekly Standard is a must read magazine for conservatives on the Hill, we will be dragged into dumbass wars and engagements that do nothing to improve our national security.
But that is how you keep the money flowing. There is no profit in peace
“Taking out Saddam is like pulling the finger out of the dyke.”
“Pulling the finger out of the dyke” is an unfortunate misspelling, with interesting implications. I think you meant to type “pulling the finger out of the dike.”
Very hospitable and generous!!!
May God reward good works.
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