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Meanwhile, the old networks who gutted their foreign bureaus as they remarketed newscasts into semi-profitable robo-crewed pundit festivals have discovered Vice footage isn’t just from North Korea anymore and can foment better than Norah O’Donnell’s best pro Bush wink.
Note to old webs: Ponder “boots on ground” cliché and White House term “assets”…
“Previously, the U.S. had insisted on only selling arms to the Iraqi
government in Baghdad, but the Kurdish peshmerga fighters had been losing ground to Islamic State militants in recent weeks.”
Then after the Iraqi troops were armed with US weapons, they dumped their weapons on the ground before they turned tail and ran so the ISIS terrorists could pick them up and start using them. Not exactly a good investment of taxpayer money.