As yet unconfirmed reports of a massacre have emerged in the northern Iraqi village of Kucho, west of Mosul, where Kurdish sources claim dozens of Yazidis were killed by ISIS fighters.
Details are scant, but the narrative is that the ISIS deadline to convert to Islam or pay the Jizya tax expired today, and the attacks were against those who didn’t make their payments.
Stories about ISIS attacks on Yazidi have been common out of Kurdish territory since last week, pushing the US for airstrikes under the guise of “humanitarian intervention.” Yet last week’s claims of 40,000 Yazidis trapped on a mountaintop didn’t pan out, so any claims have to be taken with a grain of salt.
Still, with the US scrambling to find a new pretext for its air war, they’re not letting any report of a massacre go unexploited, as US drones pointed the village of Kucho later in the day, claiming they saw unspecified “evidence” of a massacre having taken place.
US action based on thin or even non-existent pretext won't matter. The American people are even more complacent than in the past. For example, the reaction of the masses to the not-new-but-generally-ignored militarization of the American police forces has generally been a shoulder shrug. Even the reliable purveyors of conspiracy theories are muted. They know the game is rigged and they've thrown in the towel. The American spirit has been defeated by those who would wield power, a little here, a little there until the people no longer have the will to stand against the usurpers. People are more interested in dead comedians than in things that can directly affect their own lives and freedom. At this rate, the "pursuit of happiness" will be allowed only at the behest of the elites.
Perhaps your American spirit has been defeated. Perhaps you have thrown in the towel. Perhaps you have been defeated. That's you.
You certainly don't speak for me.
Jason. Could you refer us to the on the ground evidence about the non existence of the refuges on
the mountain ? I hear the "news" about Isis atrocities . I am sure they are brutal but so much of it sounds so much like that story about the babies and the incubators on Iraq. Where is the real skinny coming from?