The Obama Doctrine
Category: POLITICS
President Obama's announcement that the US will protect 40,000 Yazidis trapped on Iraq's Sinjar Mountain is a decisive response to an unfolding humanitarian disaster. Airdrops of water and food will save lives. The Yazidis, however, will not really be safe until they can get off the desert mountain and back to their homes in Sinjar.
By Peter W. Galbraith, ContributorFormer U.S. Ambassador to Croatia, 2014-08-09