watching lindsay graham and jack reed this mornin on candy crowley's show. graham needs no more occasion to mount a ground assault on the is. reed needs 'a specific threat to the homeland': it's definitly the gear-up; it's like he just requested the intelligence community to produce a gulf of tonkin. scooter! get me some yellowcake and judith miller on the phone. honestly, though, i'm not sure you can permit a hyper-violent caliphate to sprawl across the middle east. shipping more and bigger weapons to everyone has unaccountable long-term effects, while a newfound alliance with assad and iran is interesting. lord knows what turkey does with a heavily armed kurdish force, etc.
anyway, we'll be quite a bit more at war, even this week i think.
