Should the US get involved in Iraq?

There has been a debate ongoing about whether or not we should get involved in any substantive way– in any military way–with Iraq and the present problems with the marching “armies” of ISIS. This seems to me to be a no-brainer.

There are forty thousand civilians trapped on a mountaintop in Northern Iraq and their life-choices are as follows: stay on the mountaintop and die of starvation and dehydration, or come down from the mountaintop and face certain slaughter by the ethnic cleaning maniacs of ISIS. If this situation were happening in Europe and forty thousand Americans were at risk, the planes would already be headed to the conflict area.

I’m not suggesting that we need to send the cavalry in. Modern technological warfare has produced enough planes and drones and computer systems to be able to render ISIS DOA from a relatively safe distance. We need to get those planes over ISIS NOW.

And we need to arm the Kurds IMMEDIATELY. This is their country and they want to defend their own land. They are not asking for American boots. Just American support from the air and American guns for self-defense. We either choose to help now or face the prospect of battling a terror state later. Three thousand American casualties after 9/11...lessons have been taught. Have we learned them?