[Foreign News]US and Genocide:

Who gets bombed, who gets saved?

Thank you for saving the day President Obama, all for the sake of preventing a genocide in Iraqi Kurdistan. Thousands of Yazidi Kurds roaming the Sinjar mountains have been waiting for your

invaluable help for the last seven days: Scores of people have died of thirst and exhaustion because you took your time to react, but as they say, better late than never.

The Christians of Mosul who have been systematically victimised since well before the Islamic State group takeover of their city have also long been waiting for US help, and so have the populations of Syria and Darfur, who were never granted this privileged status granted by an impending “genocide”. Forget even about Rwanda: that would be below the belt. US jets bomb the Islamic State group in Iraq So aren’t we all relieved that US drones and aircrafts have launched their hellfire missiles onto Islamic State positions approaching the sacred sanctuary of Erbil, the economically successfully new Dubai which hosts scores of NGOs, businesses, and of course, US army personnel?

I should actually be glad that these airstrikes took place. As I was relocating with my seven-year-old daughter from across the world to come and teach Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Duhok, I was told to turn around and wait a few days until the situation improves, as if the Islamic State group is no more than a snow bank that the mighty US government will clean up after a nasty storm. So now I may relocate and force liberal peace studies down the throats of young gullible Kurds. Drones have cleared the way for me to come and justify your war crimes, in the name of peace and security. I am grateful since air strikes mean that I can keep my job.