The Political Page, T+233 -- September 10, 2017

No más! Denmark agrees with Trump -- enough is enough. Denmark suspends refugee resettlement under UN program. The country will decide on its own on a yearly basis what's best for the country.

They can run, but they can't hide. From The LA Times:

U.S. officials say Islamic State has lost 60% of the territory it captured in 2014, and its force has been halved to about 15,000 fighters. The recent intelligence indicates that they are concentrating forces and shifting their operations base to the Middle Euphrates River Valley, which lies between Iraq and Syria.

An estimated 8,000 fighters have moved to the valley, which stretches more than 150 miles from Deir el Zour in eastern Syria down to Rawa in western Iraq. They include most of the group’s leaders and their families, as well as key aides for administrative functions.

A U.S. special operations task force tracked and killed three leaders, who allegedly oversaw weapons research and drone operations, in the valley this week, officials said. In all, more than 35 military commanders, weapons production experts, financial facilitators and external attacks plotters have been killed there in the past year.

Islamic State founder Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi is believed to be hiding in the area, said Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend, who completed his tour this month as top commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria. He predicted the militants would make their “last stand” in the valley.

NPR gives all the credit to the Democratic leadership. President Bill Clinton was said to have been a genius at triangulation. But the credit for the deal to raise the debt limit, provide aid for Hurricane Harvey, and prevent a government shutdown -- all accomplished in two days -- apparently belongs to the Democratic leadership and not to the president. At least according to NPR this morning. And so it goes.