At the website of the New York Post today, there is a video taken of ISIS fighters buying and selling young women as slaves in Iraq. The women are Yazidis who were captured during the fighting and their duties as slaves are to be concubines for the fighters. There are also children who are bought and sold.
With all the non-stop nonsense that goes on in this country about the supposed War on Women, I have not heard one member of the group that promotes that story denouncing what is happening in Iraq. Someone like senator Mark Udall in Colorado is prepared to argue that a debate over whether birth control should be sold over the counter (as his Republican opponent wants) or by prescription only (as Udall wants) is part of the Republican War on Women. He has nothing to say, however, about thousands of women being sold as sex slaves or murdered. Udall is not alone. Remember Sandra Fluke whose big point was that America ought to pay for her birth control pills and that failure to do so was a war on women? We don't hear her talking about the women sold as slaves either. Nor do we hear from NARAL or NOW or any of the other liberal groups who are so happy to denounce a non-existent War on Women.
And where is president Obama? Shouldn't he be out there saying something about this? Maybe Michelle could take time out from promoting the joys of eating turnips and maybe speak about these women whose lives and humanity are being taken from them. For the Yazidi women, Michelle could not even be bothered to promote a hashtag like she did with the Nigerian girls who were similarly captured by Boko Haram.
The truth is that ISIS is a cancer on the soul of humanity. It is time to stop using minor force and to actually unleash the US air force against these terrorist thugs.
With all the non-stop nonsense that goes on in this country about the supposed War on Women, I have not heard one member of the group that promotes that story denouncing what is happening in Iraq. Someone like senator Mark Udall in Colorado is prepared to argue that a debate over whether birth control should be sold over the counter (as his Republican opponent wants) or by prescription only (as Udall wants) is part of the Republican War on Women. He has nothing to say, however, about thousands of women being sold as sex slaves or murdered. Udall is not alone. Remember Sandra Fluke whose big point was that America ought to pay for her birth control pills and that failure to do so was a war on women? We don't hear her talking about the women sold as slaves either. Nor do we hear from NARAL or NOW or any of the other liberal groups who are so happy to denounce a non-existent War on Women.
And where is president Obama? Shouldn't he be out there saying something about this? Maybe Michelle could take time out from promoting the joys of eating turnips and maybe speak about these women whose lives and humanity are being taken from them. For the Yazidi women, Michelle could not even be bothered to promote a hashtag like she did with the Nigerian girls who were similarly captured by Boko Haram.
The truth is that ISIS is a cancer on the soul of humanity. It is time to stop using minor force and to actually unleash the US air force against these terrorist thugs.
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