Commentary
It was Aug. 3, 2014, and I remember sitting in front of the television, watching in horror as the so-called Islamic State swept across Iraq and Syria ethnically cleansing Yezidis and Christians from every territory it seized. On the screen were haunting images of Sinjar Mountain, where tens of thousands of Yezidis had fled. Now trapped, they were starving and dying of dehydration under the burning sun.