The Yazidis need aid, but military intervention by states that destroyed Iraq will deepen the crisis now tearing it apart
They couldnt keep away. Barely two years after US forces were withdrawn from Iraq, theyre back in action. Barack Obama has now become the fourth US president in a row to launch military action in Iraq.
Were now into the sixth day of US air attacks on the self-styled Islamic State, formerly known as Isis the sectarian fundamentalists who have taken over vast tracts of Sunni Iraq and are carrying out vicious ethnic cleansing against minorities in the north.