Friendly reminder that the best model for ISIS is the French Revolution, both in that people in other countries found it hard to look past the terror and decapitations and that it’s really about replacing a mishmash of local systems of postfeudal personal rule with a coherent modern state rooted in popular identity.

You know, I would love to see Iran defeat ISIS, using their homegrown weapons systems developed under embargo. Not so much for geopolitical reasons but because it would set up the perfect fucking headline:

“Islamic Tech Beats Islamic State”