Saturday, January 29, 2022

Look who's playing dumb

THE NEW YORK TIMES and HARRATZ love to flaunt their stupidity.  Mutlu Civiroglu Tweets:


Attack on Kurdish prison in Syria shows ISIS is still alive and kicking
haaretz.com
Attack on Kurdish prison in Syria shows ISIS is still alive and kicking
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8:54 PM · Jan 28, 2022


That's HAARETZ.  THE NEW YORK TIMES runs with "ISIS SIEGE OF SYRIA PRISON PROVES IT'S STILL A THREAT."


Their humble-brag of stupidity from two major press outlets.


ISIS has now demonstrated that they're still a threat?  Now?


What world do these iditos live in?


ISIS was never defeated in Iraq.  Just because the press loses interest doesn't mean a terrorist group ceases activity.  


As last year drew to a close, Cole Bunzel looked at ISIS for The Wislon Center and noted:



In terms of attack numbers and casualties, the trendlines are somewhat down over the past year, but not to such a degree as to inspire confidence that the tide is turning. In the latest reports of the U.N. Security Council and the Department of Defense (namely, the U.N. sanctions monitoring team report and the lead Pentagon inspector general report), no one is doing victory laps. The Islamic State insurgency is presented as “entrenched” and in some ways poised to grow worse. According to the United Nations, there are still some 10,000 Islamic State fighters between Iraq and Syria, though the real number is anyone’s guess. (I would assume a somewhat lower number.)


The two news outlets want to feign shock today is laughable.


In other news, AFP reports:


Each working morning, oil engineer Safa al-Saeedi dons a safety helmet and heads into a gas complex for another day challenging conservative prejudices by being a professional woman in Iraq.        

"Society does not accept that a girl can live outside the family home," said 29-year-old Saeedi, who works in Iraq's southern oil and gas fields around Basra.

Saeedi, one of just 180 women among the 5,000 employees of the Basrah Gas Company, sees herself as a change maker and encourages other women to join the industry.

For many, a single woman working away from home in a male-dominated sector is frowned upon, and it is a hard task for women to break out of the role of wife and mother traditionally assigned to them.

"I often hear them say to me: 'You are almost 30, you will miss the boat! You will end up single,'" said Saeedi. "It makes me laugh, but I do not answer."




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