I think you are right, although whether the US could have done anything much to help these developments is another question.

Right now, with respect to the topic, I personally believe we should offer immediate asylum to all the Kurds, and to all the Christians and Ahmadi Muslims, in the Middle East.
i would settle all the latter in Detroit and Minneapolis.

You can get a lot further in life with a kind word and a gun, than you can with a kind word alone.
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light.