With the launch of US and allied air and drone strikes in Iraq and Syria, the US has lifted precautionary measures and stringent rules for considering the risk of killing civilians and children while engaging militants in air strikes. cnn/2014/10/01/politics/wh-isis-civilians/index.html Raed Jarrar, the Policy Impact Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee says he fears this change in policy will have serious consequences Im concerned that the U.S. is not held to the same standard as other countries when it comes to violating international law and killing civilians. Reverand Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite Ph.D, Professor of Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary, sent a message to President Obama saying that disregarding international law and exempting the protection of civilians in combat is a profound moral, tragic and strategic mistake. Dr. Thistlethwaite says this policy violates Just War Theory, and the conduct of war. huffingtonpost/rev-dr-susan-brooks-thistlethwaite/syria-drone-strike-civilian-casualties_b_5913208.html The US / allied bombing campaign began as a result of ISIS atrocities, beheadings of western journalists and aid workers, and mass murders of tens of thousands of captured fighters, civilians, children, Shiias, and especially ethnic and religious minorities like Yazidis and Christians. commondreams.org/news/2014/09/29/us-bombs-iraq-and-syria-who-exactly-being-killed To complicate matters, ISIS uses Yazidis and innocent civilians as human shields to deter US and coalition bombs. breitbart/Big-Peace/2014/09/15/Iraq-ISIS-Using-Yazidis-as-Human-Shields-Against-U-S-Airstrikes Photo: Rubble of home after US airstrike in Kafar Daryan, Syria. (c) Sami Ali / AFP Yazidi girl at the Iraqi-Syrian border in Fishkhabour, Dohuk province (c) Reuters Iraqi Kurds & Christians hold signs thanking US in Erbil (c) Safin Hamed /AFP/Getty
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