What If Baghdad Falls?

(If you must discuss Ebola, please scroll down)

Patrick Poole has some thoughts on the matter. The first two points (Please read all links in the excerpt below):

The Great Flight Of The Kurds

The desperate attempt of 60,000-100,0000  [revision: possibly 200,000] to flee Syria as the onslaught by the Islamic State (ISIS) continues (Click directly on images to enlarge them):

More information about the above exodus HERE.


The Islamic State's map of their Five-Year Plan:

Breaking My Silence

I'm not yet ready to return to full-time blogging. This nasty cough still grinds on (What a virus!), and my workload isn't quite under control.  I should assign less work to my students, I suppose.

The above said, with the United States now embarking upon a non-war (What is this thing, exactly?), here's something to discuss for the next few days (not my "typical blogging style"):


The ugly truth is this, and all the wishing otherwise will not change the truth....

The problem is Islam.