Back To Iraq? Tweet Reax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VGpv5ezOjE

Obama announces 2 operations in Iraq. Targeted air strikes to protect US personnel and humanitarian aid to stranded minorities.

— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) August 8, 2014

Obama: We can act carefully and responsibly to avert potential act of genocide on that mountain

— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) August 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/497557187045359616

https://twitter.com/EvanMcSan/status/497556546000130048

Breaking: U.S. military airdrops food and water for Iraqi citizens threatened by ISIL. The aircraft has now safely exited.

— Department of Defense 🇺🇸 (@DeptofDefense) August 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/497575078406520832

US back at war in Iraq.

— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) August 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/BrettLoGiurato/status/497565983482335232

https://twitter.com/nickrobinsearly/status/497561187656429569

https://twitter.com/joshgreenman/status/497557726105698305

A request from the Iraqi gov for military assistance is a very important legal fact when it comes to distinguishing Iraq and Syria.

— Michael Hanna (@mwhanna1) August 8, 2014

Dawn breaks over Erbil…still in Kurdish hands & likely reassured Obama willing to use air power to protect it pic.twitter.com/uiYiG5DDxW

— Ivan Watson (@IvanCNN) August 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/497580465696423936

Good Obama decision-clearly hard for him, but response to plea for "help" from Yazidis dying on the mountainside is best of what US can be.

— David S.Sedney (@david_sed) August 8, 2014

https://twitter.com/JeffreyGoldberg/status/497574852799496193

https://twitter.com/CrowleyTIME/status/497564436325216256

The Middle East has confounded every American president since Carter. Can't leave it; can't fix it either.
— Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) August 8, 2014