Hundreds of Iraqi tribesmen opposed to Islamic State found in mass graves

[Comrade Grumpy]

22. What's funny is the way you try to downplay ISIS atrocities.

You don't like the Daily Caller. Fair enough. It was a quick grab. But if you had bothered to even look at the first paragraph, you would see it was based on an extensive Washington Post report:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/syria-tribal-revolt-against-islamic-state-ignored-fueling-resentment/2014/10/20/25401beb-8de8-49f2-8e64-c1cfbee45232_story.html

The BBC story was about one Yazidi village, not the total death toll from ISIS's rampage through Iraq and Syria.

I don't know the exact number ISIS has murdered. Not killed in combat. Murdered. 1700 unarmed, captured Iraqi soldiers in their initial rampage into Mosul and beyond, 600 Shite prisoners in the Mosul prison, probably hundreds of Yazidis, hundreds of Kurds, and other groups subject to their genocidal impulses. Then there's the hundreds of Syrian tribesmen the Post mentions, the several hundred surrendered Syrian army soldiers they murdered at that air base near Raqqa, not to mention all the killings they do in Raqqa itself. And everywhere else they are. And that's just off the top of my head. Maybe they haven't murdered 10,000 people yet. Maybe it's only 7,000.

You really seem to think its okay to murder prisoners. That's what it is when you kill a helpless captive.

I don't drink Koolaid.

And when it comes to US policy options I don't see any good ones. But as much as I have consistently opposed the adventures of the US imperial war machine, I just can't manage to shed any tears for those ISIS guys on the receiving end of our expensive killing machines.