Charles Krauthammer has an excellent recent piece on the political logic of ISIS, the most recent demonic cult to emerge from that hellish part of the world. Krauthammer easily knocks down all the clay pigeons in Obama’s “foreign policy of the week.” Dr. K makes only one misstep, in my opinion, and oddly enough, it’s a diagnostic mistake about ISIS. As a psychiatrist Dr. K knows all about the difference between psychopaths and sadistic criminals, but in this case he calls the latest jihadis only “psychopaths.” But they are obviously sadists (as well as psychopaths) because they show pleasure in torturing and killing people. What’s the difference? It’s very simple: psychopaths don’t feel guilt about hurting other people, but sadists take active pleasure in committing horrors that civilized people can’t even look at. In his pornographic novels the Marquis de Sade wrote about taking sexual pleasure from torturing and even...(Read Full Article)