As PISSI closes in on Kobani, Turkish troops have not intervened.

Four cities have dropped their bids for the 2022 Olympic Games, because the IOC demands too much money.

The only remaining bids are from corrupt, tyrannical countries which don't care.

If the Senate continues blocking the small reform of the "USA Freedom Act", parts of it will expire entirely next year.

Let's hope so.

Obama's strategy of arming "moderate" Syrian rebels to defeat PISSI is fantasy, and even confirmed Syrian enemies of Assad say so.

Even a right-wing commentator acknowledges this.

So did Obama, not long ago. (Search the article for "fantasy".)

On the other hand, if the Turkish army is willing to fight PISSI in Syria, it could win. Since Turkey is mainly Sunni, Syrian Sunnis who fear Assad would massacre them for their sect could trust Turkey not to do that. (Turkey is no great defender of human rights, but it may be good enough for this.) This might enable the Syrian Sunnis to reject PISSI.

Other things could go wrong: the Turkish army might start fighting Kurds in Syria, for instance. But there is hope of avoiding that.

There are many problems with Obama's plan for dealing with PISSI.

Right-wing extremists in the Japanese government are denying the facts about forcing women from conquered peoples to act as prostitutes for Japanese soldiers.

The worst crime was committed by the societies that despised these women for the way they were treated. Many of them did not go home after the war, certain their families would reject them.