Met w/minister @MevlutCavusoglu to dicuss the recent Turkish airstrikes in Sinjar. Turkey & Iraq must work together to find a solution to prevent any further bombings in Sinjar. We want to rebuild what ISIS destroyed & help Yazidis return home.
Why don't we note Nadia Murad? That question has resulted in a lot of e-mails.
First off, I'm not impressed with the Nobel Peace Prize and haven't been for some years. Planting trees is peace? Being elected US president is peace? Being raped is peace?
I don't care for the prize and think it's a joke.
As for Nadia, she was raped. That's awful. It doesn't make her a better person, it doesn't make her a saint. Does it have anything to do with peace?
I don't think so. Let's review that Tweet she did one more time.
Met w/minister @MevlutCavusoglu to dicuss the recent Turkish airstrikes in Sinjar. Turkey & Iraq must work together to find a solution to prevent any further bombings in Sinjar. We want to rebuild what ISIS destroyed & help Yazidis return home.
I'm all for ending the bombing in northern Iraq. I have long maintained that it is a violation of Iraq's sovereignty and that the Turkish government is persecuting Kurds, not attempting to 'curb' terrorism. We've spoken out against these bombings since Nouri al-Maliki's first term as prime minister (when they officially began).
So I should applaud Nadia?
Why?
Here's the Tweet from the Turkish official she met with.
Discussed w/ #Yezidi activist and 2018 #Nobel Peace Prize winner @NadiaMuradBasee the situation of Yezidis. PKK/PYD/YPG continues to oppress everyone in Iraq & Syria, including Yezidis, Assyrians and Kurds.
I see that they both used the same photo. I don't see that he acknowledges discussing Turkey's bombings of Sinjar (or anywhere in northern Iraq).
Did she actually bring the topic up? Maybe, maybe not. If she did, he didn't find it worth mentioning.
Nadia was raped. That's horrible. That doesn't make her a leader, though. She speaks a lot. She Tweets a lot. I just don't see her inspiring people within Iraq. She's the sort of do nothing that the American media can get behind (and they certainly have). A real Iraqi leader would be calling for all US troops out of Iraq. That's the position of the Iraqi people. Nadia will not make that call. She's not a leader, she's a mis-leader.
And right after useless Nadia met with Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs? They issued a statement. REUTERS reports, "Turkey will keep striking Kurdish PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the foreign ministry said on Saturday, a day after Baghdad formally complained that repeated Turkish air strikes violated its sovereignty and endangered civilians."
Again, Nadia's a media created leader. She's done nothing with her life -- she's very young, she still has time. She's a model, that's what she is. Only instead of modeling clothes, she models soothing political fashions.
Speaking of useless . . .
Another day of protests in Basra Called for provincial council to step down
For reality . . .
I’m amazed by how many interest groups attempted to interpret #BasraProtests in favor of Governor Asaad al-Edani against #Basra Council.
Allow me to clarify: The protests are against Edani, the council, and all political parties....without any exceptions. #Basrah
Here's some more reality:
The protests are real.
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