Quote of the Day: What ISIS Really Wants

From Graeme Wood's 10,000-word exegesis in the Atlantic on the origins and true beliefs of ISIS: Its rise to power is less like the triumph of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (a group whose leaders the Islamic State considers apostates) than like the realization of a dystopian alternate reality in which David Koresh or Jim Jones survived to wield absolute power over not just a few hundred people, but some 8 million. A friend recommended I read this, so I plowed through it this afternoon. Here's ...