I found this Christian Post article via a blog post on Think Apologetics. Robert George is one of the best (if not the best) respected Christian ethicists operating today. So it’s interesting to see what he thinks we ought to do in Iraq.
Excerpt:
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, started a petition calling on President Barack Obama, Congress and the international community to destroy ISIS as a fighting force.
In a Thursday video phone interview with The Christian Post (see below), George said he thought the petition was needed because ISIS, also called ISIL or the Islamic State, is committing genocide, similar to what happened in Rwanda in 1994. The United States did nothing to prevent the Rwandan genocide, and that was a mistake that should not happen again, he argued.
The signers of the petition, available at iraqrescue.org, include Democrats, Republicans and independents; conservatives, liberals and moderates; and various religious traditions.
Among the signers are Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission; Ben Carson, retired Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon; Edward Whelan, president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center; Eric Metaxas, an Evangelical author and public speaker; and Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom. (Affiliations are provided for identification only. They are not signing as representatives of the institutions they work for.) At the time of this publication, the petition had over 3,800 signatures.
“Nothing short of the destruction of ISIS/ISIL as a fighting force will provide long-term protection of victims,” the petition reads in part.
The United States “doesn’t have any real moral choice,” George said. It is “our moral obligation” to stop the genocide. George does not believe the assistance necessarily requires American ground forces. Rather, the United States can contribute with air strikes, intelligence, and strategic support for the Kurdish forces and religious minorities who are being targeted by ISIS.
I think it’s very important for us to speak out to our neighbors about this, because in watching the mainstream media cover this, they just want this issue to go away. They know that Obama withdrew our forces in Iraq and set up the conditions that led to this genocide. So it’s up to us to keep the pressure on. Eric’s post on Think Apologetics has some ideas about what to do.
WINTERY KNIGHT 
For just half a mil you can have breakfast with one of the least-likable people on the planet. Or, for 10% of my income, God pours out the blessings of heaven.
I do have questions though: For half a mil, Where are we going to eat? Denny’s? Dunkin’ Donuts? Will Richard Dawkins cook breakfast for me? Will he even pick up the tab? Can we make a Kickstarter to get Ken Ham to have breakfast with Richard Dawkins?
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I have mixed feelings on this. Although I’d love nothing more than to save Middle Eastern Christians and have Islam wiped out, I just don’t know if America can do anything about this long term. It would take a lot of strong-arming to get another influx of troops as Obama failed to extend our presence there past 2011 (which he spun as the voluntary withdrawal he had promised). After ISIS is gone, we’ll be asked to leave, and the next extremist group will move in.
We really screwed things up when we removed Saddam; he at least tolerated Iraqi Christians since he didn’t see them as a threat. It’s the same thing with President Assad in Syria. These despots are the lesser of two evils for Middle Eastern Christians and the West as a whole.
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