Can we elect them any more stupid?

Booman at Booman Tribune

[...] The War on Terror has now lasted longer than the Civil War, the Korean War, or than our participation in either World War. And, yet, despite this, the people charged with protecting us and winning this war do not know the difference between a Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim.

Not "Representative Terry Everett, a seven-term Alabama Republican who is vice chairman of the House intelligence subcommittee on technical and tactical intelligence." Not "Willie Hulon, chief of the bureau’s new national security branch." Not Gary Bald, (once) the FBI's counterterrorism chief. Not "Representative Jo Ann Davis, a Virginia Republican who heads a House intelligence subcommittee charged with overseeing the C.I.A.’s performance in recruiting Islamic spies and analyzing information." None of these individuals knew how to answer when reporter Jeff Stein asked them to articulate the difference.

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To his credit, he asked me to explain the differences. I told him briefly about the schism that developed after the death of the Prophet Muhammad, and how Iraq and Iran are majority Shiite nations while the rest of the Muslim world is mostly Sunni. “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.”

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