Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Quote of the Day
And it's a dousy.

Some brief background first. This quote is from Terry Everett, a seven-term Alabama Republican who is vice chairman of the House intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence, when he was asked if he knew the difference between a Sunni and a Shiite. When he admitted he didn't, he was told the difference and then said this:
“Now that you’ve explained it to me,” he replied, “what occurs to me is that it makes what we’re doing over there extremely difficult, not only in Iraq but that whole area.”
What an amazing revelation. There are a whole lot of dead people who would have wanted him to perhaps know about the difference a few years back, although I'm not sure it would have changed his voting.

UPDATE: Oh my. You mean there are more? Billmon:
Let's review. We have:

1. The head of the FBI's national security branch
2. The Vice Chairman of the House Intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence.
3. The Chairwoman of the House Intelligence subcommittee charged with overseeing the C.I.A.’s recruiting efforts in the Islamic world

And they each know less -- probably much less -- about the most critical religious divide in the Middle East (the same one that is currently getting U.S. soldiers killed at the rate of about three a day) than your average commentator at Little Green Footballs.
Written at 1:08 PM by Greyhair.
0 comments