None of this is a surprise, but since the implications are so obvious you would think there would be more of a commotion in the US: President Barack Obama does not want and will not read intelligence reports on groups “he does not consider terrorists,”. This is Sharyl Attkisson speaking:

“I have talked to people who have worked in the Obama administration who firmly believe he has made up his mind. I would say closed his mind, they say, to their intelligence that they’ve tried to bring him about various groups that he does not consider terrorists, even if they are on the U.S. list of designated terrorists. He has his own ideas, and there are those who’ve known him a long time who say this dates back to law school. He does not necessarily—you may think it’s a good trait you may think it’s a bad trait—he does not necessarily listen to the people with whom he disagrees. He seems to dig in. I would suppose because he thinks he’s right. He is facing formidable opposition on this particular point.”

Meanwhile we have Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus presenting the Government’s view on how do deal with the threat from ISIS, which he expressed as a comment on the previous thread

“Thank God we have someone rational and adult like Malcolm Turnbull in charge. I suspect Steve and perhaps Tony Abbott are more like General Buck Turgidson or General Curtis LeMay to Turnbull’s JFK. Do you really want WW3 Steve?”

The point is that we are already in WW3. The question for us is whether we are going to fight this war as it should be fought. Neville Chamberlain at least began to re-arm Britain after Munich and declared war in September 1939 after the invasion of Poland. What would it take for Malcolm to take similar kinds of steps today?

LATE ADDITION: The cartoon from The Oz which I just came across.