By far the biggest story in the world this week is the capture of large Iraqi cities Mosul and Tikkrit, and large areas of the country, by ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But there is very little attention to this here, or in the mainstream media, or in Congress.
It is especially disgusting that the Republican House of Representatives continues with ugly, grandstanding phoney scandals, like the Bergdahl matter, but ignores the crisis in Iraq. Things have suddenly blown up so bad there may well be intervention by Turkey and Iran. The corrupt and incompetent Iraqi Prime Minister al-Maliki has just called for U.S. intervention. ISIS has just announced that it's aiming for Baghdad.
Of course, the Republicans are gearing up to blame all of this on Obama for pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2012.