A walk through the Parc Monceau always lifts my spirits, and the sight of this little boy playing with his red balloon brought back memories of my own childhood watching the marvelous short film "Le Ballon Rouge" by Albert Lamorisse when I was more or less the same age as little boy in the picture. But soon enough, I had to plunge back into breaking news from the Middle East.
On Saturday morning I appeared on MSNBC to talk about Trump and the Kurds and also about Trump and oil, a subject I expect to revisit in coming days: http://us.wildmoka.com/c/clip/7BKZvg
Early Sunday morning brought news of U.S. Special Operation Forces hitting the compound where the loathsome "caliph" of the so-called Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was hiding out. We ran several revealing stories at The Daily Beast, and I was asked to write a column about Trump's press conference as soon as it was over. His melodramatic cinematic descriptions were gruesome and vivid as he tried to tear down the mystique of Baghdadi and of ISIS—a worthy goal, but not one that many jihadists or their sympathizers will find convincing. And then there was the matter of Baghdadi's severed head.
The column:
OPINION
'HE DIED A COWARD'
The president knows great television when he sees it, and he was enthusiastic about the images he was watching from the White House situation room Saturday night.
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Some of our other Daily Beast stories on Baghdadi's demise:
NO RELIABLE INFORMATION'
The Russian Defense Ministry also disputed claims that Russia provided access to U.S. air units entering airspace it controls.
'IT WAS HIM'
Trump said the elusive leader of the terrorist group detonated his suicide vest once forces closed in, killing himself and three of his young children.
RED DEAD REDEMPTION
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