Ebola scare is over, and so is ISIS

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/12/1344064/-Ebola-scare-is-over-and-so-is-ISIS

Thank you, media. You did your job.

You lovingly cobbled together boogeymen straight out of central casting: masked brown men lopping off American heads, and a disease out of the Africa that makes you bleed from your eyes. You achieved levels of paranoia that had people willing to lock up medical workers who had zero chance of spreading the disease, and you got people who had marched against going into Iraq in the first place convinced that this time we just had to get some sand on our boots.

Lacking any real threat on either front, you didn't let reality stand in your way. You deployed the GIANT FEAR GRAPHICS, you pulled out the ominous music, you gave us "news" people with wide eyes and tremulous voices. It was a masterful showing that you can still make a difference. Helluva job. Really.

Never mind that the disease was about as likely to spread across the US as Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. Never mind that the existential threat swallowing up the Middle East and creeping across our borders to murder us in our sleep was actually just another in an apparently endless series of Sunni militias that rise, fall apart, and rot.

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Scary stuff. Here's ISIS romping across Syria and Iraq, taking down a tribe that happens to be itself the hardest of the hard-core Sunni on its way to building the new caliphate.

And now, the New York Times the week after the election.

ISIS Wave of Might Is Turning Into Ripple

The extremists of the Islamic State appeared unstoppable after their sudden blitz through Iraq this summer, with its battle-hardened fighters continually raising their black flag over newly conquered areas ... the days of easy and rapid gains for the jihadists may be coming to a close in Iraq, as the group’s momentum appears to be stalling. ...

“ISIS can only expand in areas where it can enter into partnerships with the local population, and that largely limits the scope of the expansion of ISIS to Sunni, disenfranchised areas,” said Lina Khatib, the director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

[GreatGazoo]

1. GOP ran on a message of 'Obama not doing enough about ebola and ISIS' then changed

to 'we will stop Obama from doing ANYTHING about anything.'

[Turbineguy]

2. The election is over,

the republicans "won", the looting of America will resume shortly.

[doc03]

3. Two days after the election our local Republican paper ran a column

pretty much declaring the Ebola crisis had ended.

[eridani]

4. Waiting for them to say something about ISIS n/t

[malaise]

5. You forgot the men with foreign accents

That always works