"ISIS never went away in Iraq" did you see that?
At THE ATLANTIC?
Wow that's news.
Or it would be.
If I didn't read THE COMMON ILLS.
While every hairy ass reporter in the world was celebrating ISIS being vanquished last December when Iraq's Prime Minister Hayder al-Abadi was declaring "final victory" (as THE ATLANTIC notes), one person wasn't.
C.I. of THE COMMON ILLS.
The newspapers said it was over, the TV 'news' programs said it was over, many commentators (including Peter Van Buren) insisted it was over.
January 2, 2018, in fact, C.I. was correcting Peter's claim that it was over.
Time and again, the press is wrong. Time and again, the gasbags they promote -- Joel Wing, Reidar Visser, etc -- are wrong.
Time and again, C.I. calls it and she's right.
Time and again.
But while she's right, a crackpot is treated as an expert.
If you missed Reider Visser's insane public meltdown, C.I. wrote about it here.
So what's really going on here?
If you're confused, I'm not.
Deborah Amos is much more of an expert on Iraq than Thomas Ricks or any other hairy assed gas bag.
But Amos is a woman.
So they don't quote her.
And C.I.? She's also a woman.
It's the same damn circle jerk going on, the same men citing the same men citing the same men. They're apparently fascinated by their own junk, they don't have time to note a woman -- especially not any woman who happens to be right.
ISIS never went away in Iraq. THE ATLANTIC tells you that this weekend. C.I.'s told it to you repeatedly throughout this year.
