Hey, big news, eh?

The "battle" is now over 70 days long.  Just two years AFTER the first battle for the same "city" (remember that one?)

This is not news.  What would make this story news is the "Why is this taking so long?" angle.  When the battle started, there were somewhere around 3,000-5,000 ISIS personnel in the place.  Against a force of "108,500; 54,000 to 60,000 Iraqi security forces (ISF) soldiers, 16,000 Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) fighters, and 40,000 Peshmerga (including approximately 200 Iranian Kurdish female fighters from PAK)" (Wikipedia) It's Monty Python time, folks.  

This isn't news either, really.  Except...a handful Canadians are in that HUGE force, somewhere, and, presumably, in the air, too.  

I'm the 2nd commenter on this story.  That gives me some comfort.  Most other readers know this isn't news, either.  Not any more.