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Carnage in Iraq

"Today America is coming to help."
"[The U.S. has] unique capabilities to help avert a massacre [and] cannot turn a blind eye."
U.S. President Barack Obama

The United States under this current administration had heaved a  huge sigh of relief on leaving Iraq. Now it sighs with exasperation that events have conspired to bring them back to the country that has bedevilled all attempts at persuading Shiite and Sunni Muslims to live in tolerance with one another rather than detesting and attacking each other. All to no avail. Bad enough that local Iraqis in the mid-2000s ventured out for night-time killing sprees, the Sunnis entering Shiite areas, and the Shiites returning the compliments in Sunni residential complexes.

Now a beast of immeasurably more barbaric proportions has raised its gruesome head in the fiercely fanatic Islamists who hate everyone and who aspire to fulfill their obligation to Islam to mount a fiercely bloodthirsty conquest over the entire Middle East. That, of course, is the start, which, once accomplished is meant to fan out to reconquer those parts of Europe that were once consecrated to Islam. And when Europe has been demolished as a Christian enclave with cultural underpinnings reflective of European heritage, the rest of the world awaits salvation from non-Muslim ignorance.

So, then, because Iraqi Christians and an ancient community of Yazidi who have seen their traditional towns and cities vanquished by the marauding barbarians with their black flags of fanatic Islamism flee in terror for their lives, having seen videos and perhaps for some personal experiences of instant death, beheadings, rape, and torture, the world's burgeoning refugee populations are in huge growth mode. Never before has the world experienced this level of terror-migration, and most of the desperate people fleeing the carnage that follows them come from the world of Islam.

It is Islam feeding on itself, devouring those that the jihadists feel are unworthy to be considered Muslim, justifying their bloodletting without end. The United States would, however, like most civilized countries, like to see an end to it. Not only because there is a definite limit to the number of refugees that can be absorbed around the world by other countries struggling to improve the lot of their own citizens, but because the world has by now absorbed sufficient numbers of Muslims fleeing their countries of origin to become beset by the inevitable Muslim dissatisfaction with the culture that has given them haven.

America has now re-dedicated itself to once again resolving problems in the world, albeit in a limited manner. That re-engagement, however, does reflect the manner of what constitutes a dread world emergency with the swift evolution of an al-Qaeda-linked breakaway jihadi group into a deadly octopus whose tentacles clutch at the minds of psychopathy-inclined Muslim men to join the liberation of Islam from its too-long slumber of aversion to mass violence, where it declares itself a religion of peace and brotherhood.


Jihad is the obligation of the faithful, and the Islamic State calls the faithful to respond, to submit to the inevitable; the destruction of all challenges to the divine right of Islam to rule the world. The American conscience was pricked by the plight of 50,000 people stranded in mountain territory when their city of Sinjar was taken by ISIS. That is the Yezidis, where those unfortunate enough to have gone to the mountains rather than into now-threatened Kurdish territory, are dying of lack of hydration and sustenance.

With the IS forces in possession of the Mosul Dam their advantage is apparent enough in the catastrophic potential they are capable of mounting, vowing to go on with "the march in all directions" to add further territory to their Islamic Caliphate. The Kurdish Peshmerga military badly require a renewal of their arms and ammunition. It is weapons they lack, not courage, to face their deadly opponents. And fanatic Islam has added another 200,000 Iraqis to the millions of the faithful already displaced as a result of violence in Syria.

So the question is, will the United States venture beyond protecting the area around Irbil by air strikes, or will it commit to arming the Peshmerga, and aiding the government of Iraq to protect at least Baghdad, despite its distaste for the Shiite-boosting, Sunni-oppressing Nouri al-Maliki?

Labels: Christians, Conflict, Iraq, ISIS, Kurds, Terrorism, United States

posted by Pieface @ Saturday, August 09, 2014