Presiding over a genocide while on a golf vacation at Martha's Vineyard will not look good for Obama's legacy.
Obama has gone from ignoring ISIS to sending advisors to Iraq to bombing ISIS to now looking at engaging ISIS on the ground to effect a humanitarian rescue of the Yezidis.
A rescue mission would involve ground forces to secure the landing zones and sort out who gets rescued first, screening for bomb-wearing infiltrators, recon missions on the ground and exposing aircraft to ground fire. Like I said, tough call for Obama.
Why can’t they just airlift in a Marine company, and provide air support? Wouldn’t that work?
Why not give the peshmerga heavy weaponry and provide air support in exchange for them rescuing the Yezidis?
Oh, he'll be OK.
His propagandists make Joe Goebbels and the Nazis's look like amateurs.
Plus, thanks to Universal Suffrage, the domestic communists can count on 47% of the vote no matter what happens.
The Pentagon has sent an additional 130 military advisers to northern Iraq to help plan the evacuation of thousands of displaced people trapped by Sunni militants on Mount Sinjar, Defense Department officials said Tuesday, raising the possibility that a larger American force may eventually be needed in the rescue attempt.
While military officials said the Pentagon planned to continue aid drops of food and water, United States officials said they believed that some type of ground force would be necessary to secure the passage of the stranded members of the Yazidi group. The military is drawing up plans for consideration by President Obama that could include American ground troops in what is expected to be an international effort to rescue the refugees, a senior administration official said.
Mr. Obama has insisted, most recently on Monday, that he will not send American ground troops back to Iraq. But as the Yazidi crisis has deteriorated, American officials say they have become increasingly convinced that a humanitarian corridor will have to be established soon, with troops on the ground to help ensure safe passage for the displaced.
“No decisions have been made as to the composition of such a force,” a senior administration official said.
SNIP
‘We Left Hundreds Behind’: Inside the Helicopter Rescue of Iraq's Stranded Yazidis (Saigon 1975)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3192167/posts
Yet the media and Republicans continue to let this guys get away with the LIE.
We have nearly 500 on the ground that have been officially announced for embassy protection and this new mission.
That's not including the Specops there lighting up targets for the Navy Fighters...and other missions.
Has the regime even mentioned them as of yet?
THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULD NOT BE DISCUSSING THIS OPENLY. DUH!!!!
I thought there wasn’t an “American military solution” to this...
I have great pity for the plight of the Yazidis but if we are to put boots on the ground again, let it be to save the Christians who are being treated so kindly by goat sodomizing moon worshiping bastards.
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.
Obama says it was Iraq who caused him to pull out because they wouldn’t agree not to prosecute American soldiers. Has that changed? Hell no!
Documentation File for the 2014 Impeachment of B. Hussein Obama, aka “Barry Soetoro” a former Foreign Student from Indonesia, and still a legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
Why again is the US the only country called in to help? Where is all of Europe?
He's on it now, though.
Nothing like telegraphing your every move...........
The Ø regime must not act too quickly here, as there are still a few Yazidi still alive. When all, or nearly all are dead, he will swoop into action, rest assured.
Funny, how other things must proceed VERY FAST, snap-of-fingers, pass legislation before it can be read. Funding to avert crisis and collapse. But, for Yazidi, gotta have more dead before acting, so no rush.
More than 14,000 Jews were evacuated from Ethiopia in Operation Solomon in 36 hours.
36 hours and 35 airplanes moved more than 14,000 people.
We could get all of those people out of there. We should’ve already gotten them out of there.
This is making me sick.
Obama is way behind the curve on this. There should have already been a coalition of countries - mostly muslim - to deal with ISIS. Bomb the crap out of them.