Posted on 08/07/2014 9:10:08 PM PDT by Steelfish
Isis's Slaughter of the Yazidi Is A New Rwanda Happening Before Our Eyes By Dan Hodges
The Yazidi wish to inform you that tomorrow they will be killed with their families. Actually, it may not be tomorrow. The 40,000 members of Iraq’s most ancient sect, who are currently huddling on the side of Mount Sinjar, might have a bit longer. If they stay there it will apparently take a few days, maybe a few weeks, before they die of thirst, malnutrition and sickness. If they don’t, their deaths at the hands of the butchers of Isis who have surrounded them will be quicker. Though not that quick.
Five hundred of their number have died in the last week alone, 40 of them children. Unfortunately the Yazidi don’t appear to have had access to iPhones, so you won’t have seen the harrowing images of their dead. Think of the Hotel Rwanda. Or the Dutch UN compound in Srebrenica. That’s Mount Sinjar this morning.
The Iraqi army, who have the responsibility for protecting the Yazidi, are nowhere to be seen. Kurdish Peshmurga troops, regarded as a more potent fighting force, have also been forced to withdraw.
And where are we? "Everybody is retreating to their corners,” Ali Khedery, the former longest-serving US official in Baghdad, told the Guardian. “And there is no credible international actor that I can see that is trying to bring it together again. It definitely is an existential threat to the Iraqi government and I think it represents yet another manifestation of the disintegration of Iraq as we know it.”
It’s certainly an existential threat to the Yazidi. And another manifestation of the disintegration of our tattered moral authority
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
Some victims were killed slowly. First the tendons in their legs would be cut so that they could not run away. Then an arm would be severed and the victim left for a while. The killers would then return and severe another limb. The purpose was to intensify the cruelty of the death and prolong the suffering in a "passionate desire to destroy not only the body but the soul of the victim before ending their life ...."
At least Clinton was not responsible for the genocide in Rwanda, he was just responsible for doing nothing about it.
Obama is 100% responsible for bugging out of Iraq and squandering America's victory. His incompetent policies are turning Iraq it into a Humanitarian nightmare.
One exact parallel between Rwanda and the crisis in Iraq is that both conflicts started slowly and could have easily been put down with minimal intervention.
One Brit officer on the scene in Rwanda at the start of the genocide observed that a single company of Royal Marines could easily have stopped the massacre before it ever got rolling.
The same in Iraq with ISIS. Obama could have wiped out the 800 ISIS invaders in less than a week on the cheap with a small handful of aircraft armed with JDAMs.
There would have been close to zero risk to our forces and little or no risk of collateral damage to Iraqi civilians
Unbelievable the depths of human depravity. Clinton failed to act, genocide followed. Obama failed to act, plays politics with American Foreign Policy, genocide of minority populations take place.
Despite the fact that the barbaric ISIL jihadists have disrupted and seized poorly defended Christian and minority communities, they remain overextended and are vulnerable to a decisive counterattack. The Russians and Iranians are providing military, logistic and training aid to the Iraqi military that has been reinforced by motivated Shi’ite volunteers. The ISIL offensive has been stalled outside of Baghdad. Tough Kurds are harassing their flanks as Hezbollah, Syria and the Lebanese military are in their rear. While they have captured a large amount of weapons and ordinance, the Saudis are no longer funding them and they have no reliable supply routes to the outside. If the Iraqi army is able to launch a coordinated creative counterattack, ISIL may be in for a very bad time. Their situation is eerily reminiscent of the German invasion of Russia. Militarily overextended and characterized by brutal atrocities to innocent civilians. History is being repeated.
We must conclude that Obama wants to see Christians killed.
If they take any ISIS terrorists alive, will they be charged with crimes against humanity and executed or will they get three square meals and clean linen in Gitmo?
The omission of Christian slaughter in his speech is telling.
In Rwanda, some half million to a million men, women and children were hacked to pieces with machetes. So see, the Middle East is no big deal compared to that.
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Beyond sickness...that is Satanic.
Yet Christians here in the US who voted for the Evil POS still support him. May God’s wrath befall them.
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Your comment about overextension and cruelty to the population is on target. I’ve been thinking the same thing.
I heard this morning estimates that the ISIS/ISIL fighters number around 12,000. It’s hard to believe that the Iraqi army, numbering many times that much and supported by so much American training and weaponry, just crumbled before them. But, they have not only killed Christians and Yazidis—they have abused the Sunnis in northern and central Iraq who might have been inclined to prefer them over the Shi-ite jerk Maliki. It’s also hard to believe that US personnel didn’t know how hollow the Iraqi Army was, although it’s easier to believe that Obama was told and ignored the info, hoping that it would fall apart in, say ten years on a GOP President’s watch.
Ultimately, the population will grow to hate them, if they don’t already. But, getting rid of an oppressive rule can take a long time.
I think that it is important enough to mention the Hutu and Tutsi violence was not tribal. It was more about class.
In fact, the two originated many years ago as class.. "the people who owned the most cattle were called 'Tutsi' and everyone else was called 'Hutu'" quoting a wiki source. I remember from the book that colonialists considered the Tutsi more European-like, such as lighter skin and a taller build and ID cards were required to list Tutsi or Hutu.
They lived and worked together, intermarried, and the only way in many cases that one was distinguished from the other was the ID cards. The husband's ID usually applied to the children. You could change the designation also.
IIRC there was longstanding enmity between extremists on both sides -- the origin of the genocide was political and started from comments on a popular radio show. Eventually the phrase "Cut the tall trees" caught on and spread. The machetes were handed out by the thousands to the Hutus.
The General in “Hotel Rwanda” (played by Nick Nolte) was a composite of four different Generals. One of the four is Gen Romeo Delaire (Canadian Army) who wrote the book “Shake Hands with the Devil” about his experiences. He suffered a severe nervous breakdown after returning home.
I think the final straw before the bloodshed was the president’s plane being shot down. The Hutus blamed the Tutsis and went on a rampage.
Thanks. I’d forgotten that.
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