That was the headline in the New York Times. The sub-headline read, “New intelligence reports have assessed that Iran now has a far better understanding of its capabilities and the limits of U.S. power.”
Fact-check: Well, yes if you consider they now realize their capabilities are nada, non-existent, zilch. The Persian Army has more power and it disappeared in a sandstorm west of Thebes 2,551 years ago.
Readers don’t need me to toddle down memory trail enjoying Iran’s sunken navy and its air force that is headed for the aluminum can recycling machine.
Israel destroyed Iran’s underground military base beneath Gaza City a few years ago. The press calls Hamas a terrorist group but Iran funds and runs it.
The same with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Last week, the Jerusalem Post reported:
The IDF announced on Thursday that it had completed the clearance of two Hezbollah underground infrastructures on the Ali al-Taher ridge in southern Lebanon and that forces are now working to neutralize them.
According to the military, the infrastructures were built over a period of about two decades and were planned and funded by Iran.
Forces from the IDF’s 36th Division have operated in the area in recent weeks and, according to the military, achieved operational control of the ridge both above and below ground. During the operation, the area was cleared of Hezbollah operatives who had been stationed there, with some killed and others fleeing.
Inside the underground infrastructure, the forces found command rooms, weapons storage rooms, generators, living quarters, showers, and a kitchen. The IDF said the complex allowed Hezbollah operatives to remain underground for extended periods and conduct combat operations from there.
So now we know the Iranian Army’s capabilities—running through the briars where the rabbits wouldn’t go.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy is doing so well that the Lincoln aircraft carrier took off for Thailand to give its sailors a nice shore leave; leave as in leave your money behind.
Admiral Brad Cooper stayed behind. He oversees the destruction of Iran’s military. On Saturday, he posted video of our military destroying a tanker that tried to run through our blockade and tweeted, “Let the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost—taking out three of yours. We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.”
In the words of Big Jim McBob and Billy Sol Hurok it “blowed up real good.”
This is what the Baghdad Bobs at the New York Times told their readers in la-la-land:
Iran has grown more confident in its ability to attack targets in the Middle East and appears determined to continue the conflict for months to frustrate the United States, according to U.S. intelligence reports in recent weeks.
In many respects, the assessments reflect what has been observable on the ground as fighting erupted again after a period of relative calm. In the past week, Iran targeted ships in the Strait of Hormuz and American troops in the region, and U.S. forces struck inside Iran, killing military personnel and civilians.
The new exchanges have been limited so far. But the intelligence reports, according to people who have read them, suggest that Iran’s hard-line government might be contemplating a significant escalation.
Iran has emerged from months of the on-again, off-again war with a far better understanding of its military strengths and is more sure of its capabilities, according to officials briefed on the intelligence.
The reports, some current and former officials said, suggest that any agreement to fully end the war will be hard to reach. There are few signs that Iran is ready to make any sort of deal with the United States, content to exacerbate President Trump’s political problems ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, according to some officials.
Why would NYT run something awful like that?
Because the NYT strives to be awful. Robert Stacy McCain wrote about the New York Times Journalism Institute, Class of 2018, that NYT travel writer Victoria Leandra called the future of journalism.
McCain wrote, “Having been a journalist for 40 years, I know what a big story looks like. Maybe Victoria Leandra should consider how she missed a story as big as this one. The old formula of 5W’s and an H (who, what, when, where, why and how) could have yielded a remarkable story, had it been applied to the New York Times Institute’s Class of 2018: Who decided that no white males would be invited? What was the thinking that led to the decision to exclude white males from the future of journalism? Where was this idea hatched? Why was it so important to the people in charge of that program to prevent any white male from participating? How did they expect their decision to affect the future of journalism?”
She didn’t miss the story. She ignored it.
NYT like most American corporations is replacing white men, which greatly amuses me because white men built this country like it was a city and they were rock ’n’ roll.
The Constitution? White men. Railroads? Vanderbilt. Telegraph? Morse. Steel? Carnegie. Electric lights? Edison. Cheap cars? Ford. Flight? Wright Brothers. Oh, these men may not have all been the men who invented those things but they were the men who created those industries and more.
Printing? Guttenberg before there was an America. Linotypes (another German invention) made daily newspapers possible and introduced mass communication to the world—well, the parts that had a written language. Radio, television and the Internet would follow.
And guess what? When DEI tokens take over journalism, white men will invent something better. If we are going to make this tribal, then I get to point out that my tribe always creates the future through new inventions—fire, the wheel, beer, that sort of thing.
The alternatives to mainstream media are already there. Podcasters and Twitter are the new newspapers. Matt Drudge’s time is over.
The days of NYT and the rest serving as a fifth column in America are over as well.
And the days of the Iranian regime are near their end no matter what its propagandists in the media would have you believe.
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