The Peshmerga are fighting to save Iraqi Christians (along with the Yazidis) and are sheltering them inside their own territory. They are our only hope of stopping the Christian genocide in Iraq.

The Kurds are very pro-America and are our only real ally except for Israel in the Middle East (they sell oil directly to Israel, unheard of in the ME).

Via CNN:

The foreign minister of Iraqi Kurdistan on Wednesday issued a desperate plea for American and Western intervention to halt the advance of ISIS extremists.

“We are left alone in the front to fight the terrorists of ISIS,” Falah Mustafa Bakir told CNN’s Fred Pleitgen, in for Christiane Amanpour.

“I believe the United States has a moral responsibility to support us, because this is a fight against terrorism, and we have proven to be pro-democracy, pro-West, and pro-secularism.”

While much of the world’s attention has recently been focused on Gaza, ISIS has been sweeping across northern Iraq.