I haven\u2019t written much, and pretty much nothing on these topics in particular, both of which concern me. <\/p>\n
ISIS\/IS\/ISIL seems to be gaining territory virtually unimpeded, and Obama seems more concerned about the appearance of doing something, than actually being effective. \u00a0It seems all too likely that they\u2019ll conquer major swathes of territory, and the Arc of History TM<\/span> seems to be pretty impotent, it being a concept rather than a fighting force, after all. \u00a0And this isn\u2019t just some nonsense of, \u201coh, well, territories change hands all the time,\u201d but a barbaric regime which justifies sex-slavery of \u201cpagan\u201d women by pointing to the Koran. <\/p>\n And ebola? \u00a0Perhaps it runs its course without too much damage in the U.S. (and, in Africa, of course, it\u2019s not yet as deadly as the civil wars that seem to rage there unabated), but there has been so much nonsense coming out of the CDC that they don\u2019t especially inspire confidence, beginning with, \u201cshe violated protocol,\u201d \u00a0when from everything I\u2019ve read, the protocol itself is being worked out on-the-fly. <\/p>\n So I\u2019ll just leave this open-ended. \u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I haven\u2019t written much, and pretty much nothing on these topics in particular, both of which concern me. ISIS\/IS\/ISIL seems to be gaining territory virtually unimpeded, and Obama seems more concerned about the appearance of doing something, than actually being effective. \u00a0It seems all too likely that they\u2019ll conquer major swathes of territory, and the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,3],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ebola","tag-isis"],"yoast_head":"\n