NY Times Freaks Out Over Signal Kerfuffle, Links To Defeating The Houthis

But, first, going back to the John Kass article “HOW THE NEW YORK TIMES IS KILLING AMERICA“, which I mentioned the other day

Far from its carefully nurtured Hollywood image as the fearless speaker of “truth to power,” the old gray lady is the newspaper of the Deep State and the American Kemalists who control and feed the Deep State.

But now, following abuses of journalism that have finally reached critical mass in the public consciousness, the New York Times has yet again become the object of ridicule by recently publishing a pathetic defense of its COVID coverage, misleading readers even as it bleats “We Were Badly Misled.”

This is the same NY Times which, among others, started worrying more about Islamic jihadids in the wake of 9/11, who blew off Benghazi and provided cover for Clinton and Obama, who blew off Obama ignoring the Arab Spring and called ISIS the “JV Team”, provided cover for Obama when Russia took over Crimea, covering for Hillary over her blatantly illegal use of private email (when they weren’t ignoring it), blew off the aforementioned COVID, refusing to do any investigation and branding any who opposed as Wrongthingers, and provided cover for Biden’s Afghanistan misadventure, among others

The Signal thing was minor, but, 4 articles and a topline linkathon

Signal Leak Exposed When Bombs Would Fall in Yemen. But Defeating Houthis Won’t Be Easy.

The bombshell publication of a group chat involving Trump administration officials discussing U.S. battle plans revealed in unusually stark fashion what the Trump administration hopes to achieve with airstrikes this month against the Houthi militia in Yemen.

The attacks, some of the chat’s participants said, were meant to deter the Houthis from attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea and reopen shipping lanes to the Suez Canal.

“Whether it’s now or several weeks from now, it will have to be the United States that reopens these shipping lanes,” said a participant identified as Michael Waltz, President Trump’s national security adviser.

But the high-level hopes expressed in the Signal chat, which became public after The Atlantic’s editor in chief was inadvertently added to it, could collide with reality.

“Could”? Who is the Times rooting for?

Middle East experts said the Iran-backed Houthis won’t be easily beaten. Few wars have been won with air power alone, and some military experts say it will be no different with the Houthis. The biggest shipping companies also have little appetite for returning to the Red Sea. They have found a workaround that, while inconvenient and costly, allows them to avoid those lanes and deliver goods on time.

James R. Holmes, the J.C. Wylie Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, said that even during the U.S. war to remove Iraq from Kuwait in 1991, when air power was at its apex, a land invasion was necessary — and defeating the Houthis might require an occupation.

“You have to control turf to win,” Mr. Holmes said. “Aircraft cannot occupy territory, however valuable a supporting capability they are for armies and Marines.”

Wild how the NY Times didn’t care about Biden launching air raids during his time in office, eh?

The Houthis may even use the U.S. military strikes, analysts say, to bolster their position in Yemen and farther afield as other Iranian proxies, like the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, have suffered heavy losses at the hands of Israel.

Did the NY Times say the same thing while Biden was president? Here it almost looks like the Times is rooting for the Houthis and other jihadis because Orange Man is in office.

The latest U.S. strikes are a “direct answer to the Houthi prayers to have a war with the U.S.,” said Farea Al-Muslimi, a Yemeni research fellow at Chatham House, a research institute based in London. He said the group “wants to drag the U.S. into a larger regional escalation.”

So, the NY Times wants Trump to not attack? Where was this during the Biden admin? Anyhow, how many days will the NY Times beat the drum over this minor Signal thing?

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