Heartwrenching- Iraqi MP Implores Her Colleagues To Save The Yazidi People From Islamic Barbarians

Ben posted some great background on the plight of the Yazidi people of Iraq and the threat they are facing from the murderous barbarians of the Islamic State (IS).

Now watch a member of the Iraqi Parliament plead with her countrymen to save her people.

I suspect her pleas will fall on deaf ears as Iraq seems to have neither the will nor the means to combat the savages.

As painful as her pleas are and as dire as the situation is, I don't think there's any will in the administration or the American people at large to do anything about it. We simply aren't going to re-invade Iraq (though we should be able to find a way to get desperately needed humanitarian supplies to them. We've done it before.)

Failing that, there is one thing we can and should be doing...going after the people who finance groups like this. And by "going after" I mean killing. Now drying up the financing for IS is more of a challenge at this point because they are quickly accumulating the characteristics and resources of a nation state. A perverted and violent one but a state none the less. Still, they need outlets and partners to turn their resources to cash and supplies. We should make it quite clear that we aren't interested in forensic accounting or court ordered asset freezes. Our "friends and allies" in the region are playing a dangerous double game here. If we aren't going to invade every Mideast hellhole, and we shouldn't, we still have to make the cost of playing with the fire of terrorism too high. Bring the war to comfortable princelings of Arabia and watch the food they feed to the cockroaches in groups like IS disappear.

posted by DrewM. at 10:09 AM

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