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1.Rajiv Chandrasekaranexplains why defeating the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria will be tremendously difficult.

Harder than anything weve tried to do thus far in Iraq or Afghanistan is how one U.S. general involved in war planning described the challenges ahead on one side of the border that splits the so-called Islamic State.

2. The New York Times writes about how little we know about the threat that the Islamic State could pose to the United States.

Daniel Benjamin, who served as the State Departments top counterterrorism adviser during Mr. Obamas first term, said the public discussion about the ISIS threat has been a farce, with members of the cabinet and top military officers all over the place describing the threat in lurid terms that are not justified.

Its hard to imagine a better indication of the ability of elected officials and TV talking heads to spin the public into a panic, with claims that the nation ishoneycombed with sleeper cells, that operatives are streaming across the border into Texas or that the group will soon be sprayingEbolavirus on mass transit systems all on the basis of no corroborated information, said Mr. Benjamin, who is now a scholar at Dartmouth College.

3. The Post's David Nakumurawrites on how strange it is that Obama, of all people, is talking about waging war in the Middle East.

It is not a legacy the president expected to leave. Less than a year after taking office, Obama delivered an address in Oslo as he accepted a Nobel Peace Prize, awarded for what the prize committee called his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people. The president spoke about the search, among philosophers and statesmen, for the terms that would define a just war but concluded that such a conflict was rarely observed. I do not bring with me today a definitive solution to the problems of war, Obama said. What I do know is that . . . it will require us to think in new ways about the notions of just war and the imperatives of a just peace.

4.Spencer Ackerman annotates President Obama's speech, fact-checking details and providing context.

5. The amendment to overturn Citizens United got voted down in the Senate today. No one who voted against it is going to face many electoral ramifications; voters care about campaign finance, but not passionately, as this NPR post points out. Voters are watching what happens to the economy far more.

6. Jonathan Bernstein at Bloomberg View says that the amendment was a time-waster to begin with, and they should have been doing something else all week anyway.

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Viewpoint By Juan L. Mercado |Philippine Daily Inquirer

Next-door Malaysia dashed into the future this September by back-pedaling into the past. Its government has clamped back the 1948 Anti-Sedition Law.

This is the broadest crackdown since the era of strongman leader Mahathir Mohamad, now 89, Reuters news agency reported. Yet, two years ago the multiethnic former British colony appeared set on a path of greater openness.

Malays today make up 51 percent of the population. Chinese constitute 24 percent, and Indians 7 percent.

Cops arrested Malaysiakini reporter Susan Loone, then released her on bail. Malay groups lodged a police report about Loone quoting an arrested opposition politician as saying that he was treated like a criminal while in custody.

University of Malaya law professor Azmi Sharom was detained for commentary on Kuala Lumpurs 2009 political crisis. Eight opposition politicians were charged with sedition for certain statements, some uttered two years back.

Seditious tendency is the legal club. In 1987, under the Mahathir regimes Operation Lalang, over a hundred intellectuals, students, artists and scientists were arrested. The recycled Internal Security Act permits detention without trial.

Todays three-party opposition eroded the ruling coalitions majority in the last two elections. Now, the Anti-Sedition Law selectively clubs its members and activists to undermine the alliance, its said.

Prime Minister Najib Razak is being pressed by conservatives in the ruling United Malays National Organization (Umno) to take a tougher line. Mahathir withdrew support for Najib for being weak. The crackdown is a strong signal Najib is sending to say that hes not weak, notes opposition parliamentarian Ong Kian Ming.

Sapped by embedded scandals, Umno seeks to silence the opposition, John Berthelsen wrote in Asia Sentinel. Najib pledged to scrap the Anti-Sedition Law in 2012, only to shepherd a bill through Parliament that retained many of its provisions.

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UPDATE 9/12/14 @ 12:34 p.m. LINCOLN COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- West Virginia State Police say the driver of a tanker truck, who crashed Friday morning, has passed away from the injuries he received in the crash.

The crash happened about 6 a.m. near the intersection of Roy Branch Road and Route 10 in Branchland.

West Virginia State Police say the driver was Laverne Gillette, 47, of Grayson, Kentucky.

The truck rolled over, spilling a small amount of petroleum asphalt on a driveway near the road.

The paving truck belonged to W.Va. Paving.

One lane is shut down while crews continue to clean up the debris.

No word on what caused the accident, or what time the road will reopen.

Keep clicking on WSAZ.com for the latest on this story.

The rollover crash happened near the intersection of Roy Branch Road on Route 10. It happened just before 6 a.m.

Only a small amount of the 1600 gallons of the product spilled in the crash.

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