Yesterday before the attacks in Paris, Fred Kaplan had an article up on Slate that I meant to link to about the efforts this weekend to find some way to contain ISIS. That article has now been updated in light of the slaughter.
I'm not going to pretend that I know a lot about this kind of thing…or even that my opinion (if I had one) matters. I do fear a lot of bogus arguments about how we have to support So-and-So for President in this country because he/she is the kind of person to fight the terrorists, keep us safe, scare the enemy or even — God help us — "take the fight to them." But my view is that at least 95% of those we'll hear from in the media don't really have a clue what to do about this except maybe how to manipulate it to their own immediate advantage…and I hope that our immediate leaders are not in that 95+%.
I'm not sure what the next post on this site will be about but I'm going to try to transition away from this topic and towards one where I claim a lot more expertise…