Never Again Okay, Just One More Time

Ethnic cleansing seems to be a thing again.

Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians remain trapped on Mount Sinjar since being driven out of surrounding villages and the town of Sinjar two days earlier. But the mountain that had looked like a refuge is becoming a graveyard for their children. Unable to dig deep into the rocky mountainside, displaced families said they have buried young and elderly victims of the harsh conditions in shallow graves, their bodies covered with stones. Iraqi government planes attempted to airdrop bottled water to the mountain on Monday night but reached few of those marooned. “There are children dying on the mountain, on the roads,” said Marzio Babille, the Iraq representative for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). “There is no water, there is no vegetation, they are completely cut off and surrounded by Islamic State. It’s a disaster, a total disaster.”

Imagine everyone in your hometown being driven up into a nearby mountain without access to food and water. At the bottom of the mountain is a group of well armed fanatics who are willing to welcome you with open arms, 7.62x39 rounds, and freshly dug ditches.

Iraq isn't a nation anymore, it's a fiction of a nation. We're going to find out what takes its place over the next few years.

Hopefully America reverts to our Cold War foreign policy. We don't need to spread democracy, we just need allies. I don't care if the leader of a nation is a dictatorial/authoritarian sonofabitch, just as long as he's our sonofabitch.

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posted by BenK at 08:58 AM

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