Does anyone know what this Administration's foreign policy is? Certainly, no one in the Administration does. For sure, it is not about "peace and love."

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In addition to the 70 killed (all Yazidi’s),   in the hills near Mosul add another 700.  Let’s not forget the 500 buried alive,  two weeks ago (again,  all Yazidi”s) and the 1700 men who surrendered in Takrite,  hoping for mercy  . . . .   didn’t happen.  And Obama thinks the US should not be involved?  We went into Libya when 300 were killed;  we tried to manage a new Egyptian government when fewer than 300 were killed;  we threatened a “new calculus”  in Syria,  but have stood by and watched as 200,000 have been killed in that country.  The point?  Obama felt the need to be involved in all of these situations,  but suddenly,  we are no longer the “world’s peace force.”  Turns out that under Obama,  we never were  . . . . . .   the world’s peace force. 

BY: Reuters
August 17, 2014 9:04 am

By Oliver Holmes and Suleiman Al-Khalidi

BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – The Islamic State militant group has executed 700 members of a tribe it has been battling in eastern Syria during the past two weeks, the majority of them civilians, a human rights monitoring group and activists said on Saturday.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has tracked violence on all sides of the three-year-old conflict, said reliable sources reported beheadings were used to execute many of the al-Sheitaat tribe, which is from Deir al-Zor province.

The conflict between Islamic State and the al-Sheitaat tribe, who number about 70,000, flared after the militants took over two oil fields in July.

“Those who were executed are all al-Sheitaat,” Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman said by telephone from Britain. “Some were arrested, judged and killed.”

Reuters cannot independently verify reports from Syria due to security conditions and reporting restrictions.

Proclaiming a ‘caliphate’ straddling parts of Iraq and Syria, Islamic State has swept across northern Iraq in recent weeks, pushing back Kurdish regional forces and driving tens of thousands of Muslims, Christians and members of the Yazidi religious minority from their homes, prompting the first U.S. air strikes in Iraq since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.

The insurgents are also tightening their grip in Syria, of which they now control roughly a third, mostly rural areas in the north and east.

An activist in Deir al-Zor who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters that 300 men were executed in one day in the town of Ghraneij, one of the three main towns of the al-Sheitaat tribal heartland, when Islamic State stormed the town earlier this week.