Put me down as not caring that much about politicians lying (since that's pretty much part of the job description), but being much more concerned if a journalist does it, since we have to rely on them to tell us what's going on in the world.
"Another source of friction between Baghdad and Tehran, al-Zaman says, is that some of the Shiite Iraqi army officers who abandoned their posts in Mosul in the face of the ISIL advance are known to be close to Iran, and al-Abadi’s new Sunni minister of defense is already making noises about punishing and purging them." What's with the "already"? I can't believe that they haven't been sacked yet! WTF?
"The bombing [at Suruc] was by Daesh and the Turkish government had nothing to do with it."
...except for all the support Daesh has received from the Turkish government: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-l-phillips/research-paper-isis-turke_b_6128950.html
Speaking of desperate efforts to connect violence with radical Islam, have people been following Michael Sibley: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/fbi-man-who-planted-explosives-park-wanted-be-patr/nkcz9/
If you don't have a local example of violence by radical Islam to point to, the patriotic thing to do is to make one yourself!
Put me down as not caring that much about politicians lying (since that's pretty much part of the job description), but being much more concerned if a journalist does it, since we have to rely on them to tell us what's going on in the world.
"Another source of friction between Baghdad and Tehran, al-Zaman says, is that some of the Shiite Iraqi army officers who abandoned their posts in Mosul in the face of the ISIL advance are known to be close to Iran, and al-Abadi’s new Sunni minister of defense is already making noises about punishing and purging them." What's with the "already"? I can't believe that they haven't been sacked yet! WTF?