After my vacation.
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.
So now do we go into all countries to rescue those the Muslim nations should be rescuing?
Arabs have planes and they have troops...let them rescue their people if they claim they are so tolerant and care so much.
Before last week I never heard of a Yazidi. Read up on them, they are like some sort of Zoroastrian cult. So, the ISIS muslims therefore feel the need to behead them. And so, Samantha Powers will have President Ebola give them an all expense paid life in the USA, just like your basic Guatemalan gang banger.
How about a rescue mission to save our borders?
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.
There is no rescue. That time passed 10 years ago. Now, we see the results of absolute inaction.
(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 .
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.
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.
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.
After my vacation.
Airlift of two million new Democrat voters?
Obama’s “evacuation helicopter on the roof” moment.
who wasn't taking calls during his 5 hour round of golf.
It`s terrible that he allowed Iraq to be taken over by the bad guys after all the sacrifice that was made by so many, but the right thing to do now is to rescue the people trapped.
Not important who gets the credit, the military alone that do the mission should get the credit, NOT the one that allowed the problem to get this far.
Waste of time. Where are you going to take these people....every muslum country will treat them like pests or worse. You would have to take them to a Christian Country.
If you want to fix the problem, fix the problem, Iran. Bomb them 24/7 until they surrender unconditionally. They are the source of Islamic Terror Worldwide. Have been for decades.
See this article:
Pentagon: Yazidi rescue mission in Iraq is ‘far less likely’
http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/14/world/meast/iraq-crisis/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
People are dying, but the US first wants to “complete the evaluation of the situation”... how long will that take?!
Then they go on and say that things aren’t really that bad, but continue with some statistics which show things are actually worse than dreadful... but it’s only Christians who are being killed, so why should Obama care... (/sarc)
He wouldn’t understand the plan no matter what the plan is. All he has to say is yes or no.
Fortunately, we have the foreign media to inform us versus the lying US Mediots.
Iraq evacuation of Yazidis on hold as White House declares siege is over.
The Guardian ^ | 08/14/2014 | Spencer Ackerman
Posted on 8/14/2014 5:57:50 AM by SeekAndFind
The Obama administration has ruled out for now a risky US military mission to rescue thousands of Iraqis stranded on a northern Iraqi mountain, declaring a siege by Islamist extremists to be over.
After a small complement of special forces and US aid workers landed on Mount Sinjar to assess the situation of the Iraqi Yazidis – who for days have received air drops of food, water and medicine – the Pentagon said things were not as bad as initially feared. “An evacuation mission is far less likely,” said Rear Admiral John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, late on Wednesday.
US humanitarian aid drops would continue, Kirby said, but for now US planes or troops would not come to rescue the remaining Yazidis from the mountaintop terrain that has provided a harsh refuge.
The US has targeted Isis positions in the area with four air strikes since Saturday. The White House confidently declared the mission a success on Wednesday. “The president’s decisive decisions in the immediate wake of the crisis kept people alive and broke the siege of the mountain,” a White House official said.