I don't really care what Yazidis religion is, unless it involves raping and murdering innocents. Are you seriously advocating wiping them out? Or letting them be wiped out? That is your answer as to why the ISIL forces in Syria got no support. That is apparently Evil vs EVIL, and there was no way to separate the two - they were both in the wrong. Here, we have people who were not attacking anyone, not really armed at all. They are being persecuted not by devil worshipers, but out-and-out devils (ISIL).
If the US had supported Sunnis in Syria, it would have been supporting the same people that are now killing off minorities in Iraq. No thanks. At the very least, you can do your evil on your own. When we can, we will oppose you, not assist you.
But many people in the US from Republican Party and now most recently Hilary Clinton are saying that it was Obama's failure to act in time to support the secular/moderate opposition rebel forces fighting against Assad regime and his virtual hands off approach that gave rise to the likes of IS. If we are to believe what these highly placed people are saying then it was Obama's stupid policy that created this problem to begin with. Do you see a big gaping hole in your logic? Let me make it even more simple for you, if Obama helped the rebels, there would possibly be no IS today and perhaps no one like IS would be killing Yazidi's today in Iraq. Does that make sense to you?:
Americas - Clinton blames Obama’s Syria policy for rise of ISIS - France 24
Clinton blames Obama’s Syria policy for rise of ISIS
© AFP / Justin Sullivan - Hillary Clinton during a press conference in Oakland on July 23, 2014
Latest update : 2014-08-11
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blamed the rise of Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria on failures of US policy under President Barack Obama, in an interview published Sunday.
Clinton specifically faulted the US decision to stay on the sidelines of the insurgency against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad as opening the way for the most extreme rebel faction, the Islamic State.
"The failure to help build up a credible fighting force of the people who were the originators of the protests against Assad -- there were Islamists, there were secularists, there was everything in the middle -- the failure to do that left a big vacuum, which the jihadists have now filled," Clinton told the Atlantic.
Clinton, widely considered an undeclared presidential candidate, was an unsuccessful advocate of arming the Syrian rebels when she was secretary of state during Obama's first term.
She was interviewed before the US president's decision Thursday to order limited air strikes to check an IS offensive into Kurdistan, which threatened US nationals and facilities and sent thousands of refugees fleeing into the mountains.
Obama, who oversaw the US withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, vowed not to send US troops back into the country and said Iraqis needed to confront the jihadist threat by forming an inclusive unity government.
Lack of US strategy to deal with jihadism
Clinton, however, suggested in the interview that Obama lacked a strategy for dealing with the jihadist threat.
"Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle," she said referring to an Obama slogan.
She said the United States must develop an "overarching" strategy to confront Islamist extremism, likening it to the long US struggle against Soviet-led communism.
"One of the reasons why I worry about what's happening in the Middle East right now is because of the breakout capacity of jihadist groups that can affect Europe, can affect the United States," she said. "Jihadist groups are governing territory. They will never stay there, though. They are driven to expand. Their raison d'etre is to be against the West, against the Crusaders, against the fill-in-the-blank-and we all fit into one of these categories.
"How do we try to contain that? I'm thinking a lot about containment, deterrence, and defeat," she said.
Her arguments, seen as an attempt to distance herself from Obama, echoed those of Republican critics who accuse Obama of allowing a power vacuum to develop by failing to bring US leadership to bear in conflicts from Syria to Iraq to Ukraine.
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