Now, the headdress / Beyoncé thing - I wondered if people were going to get after this in the original post, and I know nothing about this woman. Apparently she’s some indigenous heritage some way back, so is she entitled to wear this? Or is it rather merely a diluted version of a sorority girl called Jessica dancing…

The only bit that's not quite right (I mean it's 90%, I'm splitting hairs a little) is calling the Peshmerga a local Kurdish force. The Peshmerga are Iraqi Kurdish, and have been sending 200 troops on a 3 week rotation to Kobani in Syrian Kurdistan to assist the YPG & YPJ (Syrian Kurdish units) and the PKK (Turkish…

"his introductory message painfully and tediously dull, forcing anyone interested to dig through a morass of verbiage to decide whether this is someone they'd want to.."