Unlike the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, it cannot be argued that external military intervention will be likely to cause more harm than good. It should be at least as effective in protecting the Yezidis (and Kurds and others in nearby Erbil) as was the intervention in Libya in 2011 to stop the threatened massacre by Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces of the people of Benghazi.
与2003年以美国为首的伊拉克入侵行动不同，此次不能简单地认为外部军事干预可能产生弊大于利的后果。此次行动保护雅兹迪人（还有附近埃尔比勒的库尔德人和其他民族）的效果至少可以和2011年阻止卡扎菲部队屠杀班加西民众的利比亚干预行动相媲美。