For Future Reference

Josh Marshall has published the text of an email he received "from a former career diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to a Muslim country." This email discusses the current situation on the ground, and puts forward three different scenarios as to how it will all play out. I'm not sure any of these scenarios will come to pass (there would seem to be a lot more than three), but this is definitely something to come back to later in a few weeks or months, just to see.