Coalition of the Unwilling Resists Anti-ISIS Commitment, Scottish Independence Debate Gets Heated, Democrats to Hold the Senate?: P.M. Links

• The Obama administration faces
  
  challenges piecing together a new coalition of the willing out
  of countries very unwilling to send military forces to
  Iraq, again, to clean up the mess there, again.
• Willing or not,
  U.S. ground troops may well be on their way to battle ISIS, say
  Pentagon officials.
• With sentiment on Scottish independence running neck and neck
  just two days before the vote, tempers are
  getting frayed and the rhetoric has turned vitriolic. For those
  who can decipher local accents, that is.
• In Pennsylvania, Eric Matthew Frein is
  sought in the ambush killing of one state trooper and the
  wounding of another. He’s reportedly been vocal in the past about
  his desire to kill police and commit mass murder.
• Ukraine is moving to
  strengthen economic and political relations with Europe—but the
  country’s government may essentially cede control over the eastern
  part of the country to separatists as part of the deal.
• Political forecaster Nate Silver says Democrats are
  closing the gap in terms of the odds of controlling the Senate.
  Well, they have made such a seductively persuasive case
  for their policies. Stop laughing, you’ll hurt yourself.
• Political pundits suspect that
  Rand Paul may not be a carbon copy of his father—that he may be
  both a better campaigner and less ideologically hardcore. Nothing
  gets by that Beltway jungle telegraph.

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