So we captured the mastermind behind the attack on the Benghazi consulate and are bringing him back for to the US for trial. US diplomatic sites are US territory, which is why this is legal and appropriate.

The view on the Right, according to ‘talk radio’, is that this was timed to assist Hillary Clinton, and isn’t really about punishing the man responsible for the death of four US diplomatic personnel.

In the Land Down Under the ABC has a useful series of maps that show the ethnic distribution in the country, and the areas of control for the three major groups.

The armchair generals among us can see some obvious moves for pushing ISIS back, but they would require some cooperation and coordination between the Kurds and Shiia, which not a given at this point.

The Iraq War ‘cheerleaders’ may not want to call this a sectarian war, but some of the Sunni governments in the area see it that way. The former Qatari ambassador to the US is on the record as saying that any use of force by the US against ISIS would be considered an attack on Sunni Islam.

Meanwhile Congresscritters are twisting themselves into pretzels over the reality that helping the Maliki government combat ISIS puts the US on the same side as Iran. They want Zero to do something about ISIS, but don’t want to be on the same side as Iran.

The Sunni governments who are our ‘friends’ in the Middle East seem to have been funneling money and arms to ISIS to fight Assad, and are now faced with having to deal with the monster they have created.

There is no way of independently verifying what he says, but McClatchy has a story on how the attack on Mosul unfolded from one of the Iraqi soldiers who fled the city.