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U.S. Weighs Military Rescue Mission for Yazidi Refugees
The Wall Street Journal ^ | Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Updated 8:40 p.m. ET | Dion Nissenbaum

Posted on 08/12/2014 6:31:36 PM PDT by kristinn

The U.S. is weighing a military mission in Iraq to rescue thousands of Yazidi refugees, a move that risks putting American forces in direct confrontation with Sunni fighters for the Islamic State.

The proposal is still under development and hasn't been approved by President Barack Obama. U.S. officials said the rescue mission is one of many options the U.S. military is weighing after dropping food and water to dying refugees over the past six days.

"People are looking at ways to do something more than just drop water and supplies," one senior U.S. official said. "You can only do that for so long."

Since last week, the U.S. has sought to halt the militants' advance on the Kurdish city of Erbil and to relieve Yazidis trapped by the fighters on a barren mountain range through a campaign of airstrikes and aid drops.

A rescue mission could expose U.S. forces to direct fire from the militant group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, and that is a risk Mr. Obama may not be willing to accept.

On Tuesday, the Pentagon continued to lay the groundwork for a rescue by sending another 130 military advisers to northern Iraq to develop options the Pentagon can present to the president. The team will be made up of U.S. Marines and members of American special operations forces who have expertise in difficult missions.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: christiangenocide; iraq; isil; isis; kurdistan; mountsinjar; obama; pitchforkpat; yazidi; yazidirescue; yazidis; yezidi
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To: Chgogal

“It is almost to damn late!”


Yeah. And are we taking care of Yazidis (???) while the Christians are neglected?


41 posted on 08/12/2014 10:34:16 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: kristinn; Eagles6; dinodino; no-to-illegals; 2ndDivisionVet; All

The scenario you outline in your last paragraph does not deal with this situation. The victims are spread out on a montain range 25 miles long and 4 miles wide where they were chased by ISIS on the plains below. Rescue personnel, medics and defenders will have to be spread out over that whole lone stretch to find the people who have collapsed, are dying of thirst, etc. The landing zones will probably not need to be secured, and few if any bomb wearing infiltrators are likely to be there. Long distance shelling may occur. And specific plans to return those attacks may be needed.


42 posted on 08/12/2014 10:55:09 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: kristinn

There is no rescue. That time passed 10 years ago. Now, we see the results of absolute inaction.


43 posted on 08/12/2014 10:58:32 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Oh, that's right! Moochie is on vacation! Those Jesus freaks will just have to wait./sarc

How utterly sad.

44 posted on 08/12/2014 11:18:11 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Eagles6

Obama’s thinking is that the Yazidis are an endangered group while Christians are not. It’s not the individuals that matter, it’s the group. Typical leftist group identity politics.


45 posted on 08/12/2014 11:31:05 PM PDT by Lexinom
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To: kristinn

(Boots on ground v. ISIS?)

Yes ! Dump Obama and resume the WAR on radical Islam

Support Israel and jointly take out all elements of radical islam in the region . Attack their supply lines , kill their leadership . Pound them relentlessly . No quarter .
It starts with removal of Obama and his regime .


46 posted on 08/13/2014 12:03:44 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: FlyingEagle

I remember them from a few years ago when a horrific video was posted of a village stoning a young girl for wearing thong underwear or somesuch.


47 posted on 08/13/2014 12:12:52 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Lexinom

The bottom line is that he hates Christians.


48 posted on 08/13/2014 12:44:25 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: dinodino

What’s needed are rough riders, not under the auspices of the US government. Where and how to find and equip people with the necessary skills and get them over there is the big question, but the US military is under the command of the US government, and even with a good, decisive POTUS, they don’t do this sort of thing well.


49 posted on 08/13/2014 2:46:51 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: LeoWindhorse
Support Israel and jointly take out all elements of radical islam in the region . Attack their supply lines , kill their leadership . Pound them relentlessly . No quarter.

There you go.

50 posted on 08/13/2014 6:34:50 AM PDT by jersey117 (sams.)
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To: Blue Highway

France and the UK are either going to or are discussing, helping too.


51 posted on 08/13/2014 6:43:21 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: LevinFan

>Send in troops to extract them

Eliminate the threat to them and let them leave peacefully.


52 posted on 08/13/2014 6:43:44 AM PDT by soycd
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To: PghBaldy

Sky News Newsdesk @SkyNewsBreak · 1m

Cameron: detailed plans being put in place for int’l mission to rescue stranded Yazidis in Iraq & “Britain will play role in delivering it”


53 posted on 08/13/2014 6:44:10 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: kristinn; P-Marlowe; Jim Robinson; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; jazusamo; Girlene

He’s let Christians be massacred and ethnically cleansed for years now, but let the Yazidi Zoroastrians get threatened, and all of a sudden it’s an issue.

This is further evidence of Obama being one odd anti-Christian duck.


54 posted on 08/13/2014 6:46:06 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: reefdiver

“How about a rescue mission to save our borders?”

Bingo. 1000’s of foreigners with no education in a distant country —> who cares?

1000’s of foreigners with no education in a neighboring country cross into our country —> Humanitarian Crisis!


55 posted on 08/13/2014 7:05:03 AM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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To: kristinn
This is just a pretext to get involved against ISIL. Obama can't admit he made a mistake by not negotiating a SOFA so he is now justifying our intervention as being humanitarian and protecting our people in Irbil.

ISIL needs to be confronted but Obama should stop this humanitarian charade and tell the American people that our national security is being threatened by ISIL and militant Islamic fundamentalism. If we really wanted to protect our people in Irbil, we would remove them forthwith.

56 posted on 08/13/2014 7:08:38 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kristinn; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
I shall dub this Operation Maddox and Turner Joy

LJB, the super Progressive he was got us tangled in Vietnam after his Great Society.

You can have War or a Welfare State, you cannot have both.

57 posted on 08/13/2014 7:17:19 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: kristinn

After my vacation.

58 posted on 08/13/2014 7:38:42 AM PDT by McGruff (Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Obama golfs while The World burns.)
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To: McGruff


59 posted on 08/13/2014 7:39:59 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: kristinn

Airlift of two million new Democrat voters?


60 posted on 08/13/2014 7:41:25 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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