Mr. President, SAVE THESE PEOPLE!

I have just witnessed something that will stay with me for the rest of my life: the evacuation by helicopter of a few “fortunate” Yazidis from the mountaintop in Northern Iraq, where they have been hiding for seven long days and nights from the savage, detestable forces of ISIS below. The face of a fifteen year old girl spoke volumes about the plight of these people. I have never seen such abject terror in the face of a young child. And she was one of the “lucky” few who made it off that mountain.

A CNN reporter was on one of these helicopters helping with the evacuation. But the whole process, as he reported, was somewhat futile, since there are just a few helicopters and thousands of stranded human beings, pleading and weeping for help.

This is a holocaust in the making, President Obama. Sixty years ago the Jews of the world pleaded with President Roosevelt to take the thousands of Jews that Germany offered America and Europe. The world turned away. Six million men, women and children were slaughtered in death camps.

 And now, the same thing is happening and once again the world is being asked–begged–to come to the aid of desperate, doomed human beings. Where is the support? A few planes of relief cannot save these people. Mr. President, it is time to take the leadership in this humanitarian catastrophe. Nothing less than full commitment to save these lives will work, and history will not look kindly on America–and the world’s–failure to act. Now.

 Please pass this comment on so other people will take up the cause of these desperate people.