Posted on 08/14/2014 3:26:50 AM PDT by Enterprise
It looks like the US won't have to launch a mass evacuation of Iraqis trapped on a mountain after all. A small team of American military personnel who spent 24 hours on Mount Sinjar said US airstrikes seem to have done the trick—most of the trapped Yazidis who wanted to flee to safety have done so, reports the New York Times. As a result, defense chief Chuck Hagel said a rescue mission is "far less likely now," reports AP.
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I believe they are saying rescue is no longer necessary as most of the Yazidi’s are dead.
Nice of the lap dog media to declare the crisis, if it really was a crisis, over. Now The Golfer in Chief can enjoy all the swanky Martha’s Vineyard parties without the bad optics.
Nail, meet hammer. If most of the refugees have left the mountain, where did they go? ISIS still controls the area around the mountain, so Christians and Yazidis who leave the high ground will face the same deprivations that forced them to flee in the first place.
In fact, their departure is (yet) another stinging rebuke of Hobama. They had been waiting for the U.S. to take the lead and get them from the mountain to a safe haven (probably in Kurdish territory), but all we did was drop humanitarian aid. The Yazidis and Christians, like many around the world, have discovered that the U.S. in a completely unreliable partner and you may be better off facing the terrorists on your own, rather than waiting for Uncle Sam.
Also, the “report” from our SOF teams on conditions among the refugees seems devoid of one salient fact: how many have died on that mountain, and how many more may soon pass away due to exposure, starvation, thirst, etc.
I have no doubt the SF personnel who conducted the survey did a professional job. But I also get the feeling their report got “massaged” as it moved up the chain of command, to build a case against wider military effort.
The rest were happy to stay and die, I guess? This is horse hockey.
The administration’s disgusting abandonment of these people leaves me physically ill. Does this take away the US’s moral obligation to disnintegrate ISIS?
You don’t have to rescue dead people
The purpose of the exercise was to stop the ISIL from invasion of the Kurds.
That is, the intent was to in effect establish a boundary between the new states of ISIL and Kurdistan. The ISIL have bigger fish to fry with their new heavy weapons. That fish fry is in Syria. Rather than lose the weapons beating on the walls of Kurdistan, a better use is capturing Aleppo.
It is time for all to recognize that which was is no more. There is no longer Syria or Iraq as there was in say 2011 or 2012.
The ISIL boundaries are not yet finalized but with the exception of that including Aleppo and the Med, the outlines are pretty clear.
My reaction was that if the air strikes were effective against ISIS, that was good news. I share everyone’s skepticism about the rescue, and I want to know more about the actual numbers of those who perished and those who were rescued.
The U.S. had an obligation to destroy ISIS once it crossed the border from Syria, regardless what Maliki wanted. But then, Obama would have been bombing the people he helped equip.
Riiiiiiiight.
The ISIS boundaries will be finalized only when every one of the m’effers is buried six feet under. Or what ever is equivalent after a bomb attack.
Well we will never know real numbers, will we? How many were there in the first place, how many died, and then the incredible claim that at least 1000 per night were escaping to safety.
And if just a few air strikes “stabilized” the situation, why did they wait for ISIS to gain so much power in the first place? I’ll tell you why, Obama waited until THEY had the territory THEY needed for a successful caliphate, only then did Obama put on this show.
Probably not.
"And if just a few air strikes “stabilized” the situation, why did they wait for ISIS to gain so much power in the first place?"
Crap weasels stick together. It's nature's way.
“Your proposal is acceptable.”
- ‘Bug’, _Men_In_Black_
MSM won,t be interviewing any Christian suvivors from that region anytime soon...or never...might prove that the fact that Islam is truely evil will be confirmed....will have to check indepenent sights and smaller agencies that will report it....
Odd isn’t it that on 9/11 “we are all Americans.” But now, with Christians being slaughtered, it’s see no evil, report no evil.
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