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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Well the important thing is to DO something.
Me? I’m going to follow the White House approved message of concern and Tweet a #Hashtag.
I’m very concerned.
Obama will dither while people die. His aim is to do as little to help these people as possible.
What is there to think about? Kill the enemy!
A human being can last only 4 days without water. “Weigh” for another day or two and the administration’s problem will solve itself.
Is Yazidi a country in Africa? If not they’d be better off calling Putin.
They’ll give it some thought.
In a few months, they’ll decide to do something and drop some MREs, only to find that the people have starved to death.
CAN’T THAT FREAKING KENYAN MAKE A DECISION???
Just like Benghazi. Snooze away Obama, fundraising takes precedence.
Airdrops must originate from either W. Europe or Turkey and I doubt that the latter is in favor of that.
Turks are known to have slaughtered Yazidis in the past.
Remember that there is no such thing as mercy in Islam.
The most powerful national entity in the known universe is only capable of limited, tardy and grudging assistance to a long-standing ally?
How frail, feeble and fallible is your comprehension of foreign policy, duty and honor that this is the only way you know how to respond to this situation?
"O" is a disgrace. SHAME!
It's more like King Obama does not want to anger ISIS because he is a coward and would rather see innocent killed than help. He is a communists black Muslim Traitor.
What would you wager that we see some MANPADs pop up the second our airplanes fly overhead.
The ONLY decision he ever made was to LIE ABOUT HIS BIRTH CERTIFICATE.
From that point on, it’s all been done FOR him!
“Weighing,” “discussing,” “considering,” “pondering,” “procrastinating,” “avoiding.”
Airdrops are good, bombing ISIS would help too
Of course once the air-drops start the next thing we will hear about is a pallet of water landing on some poor kid
Sure he can, but only if he can gain some political mileage out of it.
That would be guaranteed if there were Seals involved in the drop/strikes.
We see ISIS as the enemy. Obama doesn't.
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