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2014-12-14 Home Front: WoT

US providing little information to judge progress against Islamic State

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Posted by Pappy 2014-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top
File under: Islamic State

#1 the "Journolists" could embed themselves with IS. That works out well

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-14 08:17|| 2014-12-14 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Hard disk crashed.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-12-14 09:01|| 2014-12-14 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 The money-quote that I somehow left out:

But with Western journalists targeted for kidnapping and death by the Islamic State, it’s become nearly impossible for them to cover the conflict in Iraq safely, and most news organizations quit sending people to Syria long ago.

Posted by Pappy 2014-12-14 09:08|| 2014-12-14 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 When has a lack of information ever stopped the press from reporting?

Posted by Matt 2014-12-14 11:17|| 2014-12-14 11:17|| Front Page Top

#5 In this case, when a Democrat's in the White House.

Posted by Raj 2014-12-14 13:59|| 2014-12-14 13:59|| Front Page Top

#6 In this case, absence of evidence IS probably evidence of absence. Sorority Social Committee spokeswomen Jen Psaki and Marie Harf can't articulate what success is when they don't even know what the strategy is

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-14 14:38|| 2014-12-14 14:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Frank, I don't think Jen and Marie know what strategy is, let alone "the" strategy.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-12-14 15:15|| 2014-12-14 15:15|| Front Page Top

#8 heh heh

Posted by Frank G 2014-12-14 15:17|| 2014-12-14 15:17|| Front Page Top

#9 You guys are, like, soooo mean.

Posted by Jen Psaki 2014-12-14 15:35|| 2014-12-14 15:35|| Front Page Top

#10 But with Western journalists targeted for kidnapping and death by the Islamic State, its become nearly impossible for them to cover the conflict in Iraq safely, and most news organizations quit sending people to Syria long ago.

In other words, they're going to have to do what we've been doing here at Rantburg all along: rely on local and regional news sources, and try to estimate how inaccurate they are.

Posted by trailing wife 2014-12-14 17:21|| 2014-12-14 17:21|| Front Page Top

#11 "We'll always have Ukraine," Humphrey Badanov.

Posted by badanov 2014-12-14 17:24|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2014-12-14 17:24|| Front Page Top

#12 Wehell, its only fair, as both pre-911/Bush43 and post-911/Bush43 mainstream Amerika has to depend on the Russians for info as per space threats, not our own NASA-JPL, etc. so why not for the GWOT includ ala the Islamic State.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-12-14 22:17|| 2014-12-14 22:17|| Front Page Top

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