The more things change, the more they stay the same:

The economy of Greece is in shambles. Internal rebellions have engulfed Libya, Syria, and Egypt, with outsiders and foreign warriors fanning the flames. Turkey fears it will become involved, as does Israel. Jordan is crowded with refugees. Iran is bellicose and threatening, while Iraq is in turmoil.

Guess the year. If you said 1177 BC, you're better informed than I was...

What could possibly go wrong? ISIS seems to have access to commercial flight simulators.

What does ISIS really want?

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/what-isis-really-wants/384980/

excerpt: "Our ignorance of the Islamic State is in some ways understandable: It is a hermit kingdom; few have gone there and returned. Baghdadi has spoken on camera only once. But his address, and the Islamic State’s countless other propaganda videos and encyclicals, are online, and the caliphate’s supporters have toiled mightily to make their project knowable. We can gather that their state rejects peace as a matter of principle; that it hungers for genocide; that its religious views make it constitutionally incapable of certain types of change, even if that change might ensure its survival; and that it considers itself a harbinger of—and headline player in—the imminent end of the world."

John Tierney has a round up of links about the crybullies and their narcissitic tendencies.

I know what ISIS wants:

Crush your enemies.
See them driven before you.
Hear the lamentations of their women.

Republican royal fambly member Jeb! denies the reality of climate change.

Meanwhile his home state is installing pumps to save Miami from rising ocean levels.

Black lives matter.

Unless you're a toddler who won't eat your noodles when mom wants to score some weed, of course.