Yazidi and Children

Probably everyone has read, heard or watched what has been going on in Iraq.  And I doubt that anyone, including even the right-wing radicals is objecting to the humanitarian missions to air-lift food, water, medical supplies, tents, etc., to the mixture of religious minorities taking refuge in the Sinjar mountains.  People, who before the air-lifts, were dying of hunger and thirst.  It is estimated that approximately 40,000 people took refuge there, among them a religious group, the Yazidis whose religion traces back to before Christ, and contains elements of ancient beliefs, Christianity and Islam.  I came across a slight description of one of their beliefs on Ezra Klein’s blog, vox.com, which I found sort of interesting.  And that is that God exists, but the world is run by seven angels.  In the beginning, or sometime thereafter, one of the angels rebelled against God, but God not only forgave the angel, but made that particular angel the leader over the other angels.  However, the Muslims who make up ISIS keep forgetting if they ever knew, that God forgave that angel, so ISIS believes that the Yazidis worship Satan.  This last is in here only because I find it interesting.

Needless to say, these humanitarian air-lifts to the Yazidis, and others, on that mountain are absolutely, in my opinion, the very best action our government could have taken.  This humanitarianism is what we used to be known for.  As for the bombing of the ISIS artillery locations outside of the city of Erbil so long as they are to protect our own American personnel in the consulate, and the several hundred military who are also there, I don’t have a problem with that.  If it expands to protect Iraqi oil fields for our benefit and use, I have a great problem with that!  Not that anyone in the White House or Pentagon cares what I like and don’t like, but then, similar to many people, I do need to express my opinion.

With that said, I am a tad confused about something relative to our federal policies and the radical right.  So far, I have not heard any of them complaining about the air-lifts of aid to the Yazidis, even though these flights will undoubtedly cost somewhere in the millions of dollars, but the radical right is having a screaming fit over the refugee children streaming across our borders to escape abuse and/or death in their countries.  In both cases, these refugees are in the condition they are in from some really bad policy decisions made, primarily by our more conservative politicians.  Policies that have generated the violence that both the Yazidis and the children are fleeing from on opposites sides of the globe.  Why is it all right to spend millions of dollars to air-lift supplies elsewhere, but not spend millions of dollars closer to home to help refugee children, and some adults, who are fleeing from violence? 

I believe the citizens of this country need to do so really deep soul searching.