Subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! We talk with the Iraq Correspondent at the excellent website, The Cradle.  He has done outstanding work covering ISIS as the latest entry in a long and sordid Western imperial tradition--the covert use of Islamist terror groups as geopolitical sock puppets.  Two articles from the Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent are particularly relevant to this episode’s discussion: "Masoud Barzani: The Butcher of Sinjar" "‘Justice is sleeping’: Yezidis struggle to punish Kurds who greenlit genocide" Follow The Cradle on Twitter, and check out The Cradle website regularly to stay up to date developments in the Middle East. Image Credit: The Cradle Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode! Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange