Highlights, lowlights, links, and admiration at the acuity of our intelligence and foreign policy expert community, from the Mere Rhetoric Twitter stream:
True of false: the President knows as much from NSC as he would if he turned on MSNBC – and he’d be equally wrong in both cases.
Is anyone collecting all these “Iran isn’t Egypt & the MB isn’t Khomeini” articles, so these tools don’t get to make shit up a 3rd time?
Almost wish Chas Freeman got Clapper’s job. At least he’s familiar with worst Muslim cretins. Friendly. But familiar! http://is.gd/2vZ2iH
Blunt. But not wrong | RT @RJCHQ: Mark Steyn: The guy in charge of U.S. intelligence is an idiot (Vid) http://bit.ly/erT6qG
Were 30s and 40s liberal intellectuals as fascinated with Der Sturmer as current crop is with Al Jazeera? They had “debates” too!
To listen to MB-supporting foreign policy experts, illiberal democracy is like a magical unicorn that no one has ever seen. Willful denial.
Any other groups with “Islam” or “Muslim” RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME that our intel community can declare are secular? “Islamic Jihad” maybe?
Premature White House declaration of Mubarak resignation is the only time they’ve been “ahead” in entire Egypt crisis
Why must the Muslim Brotherhood keep saying things their Western apologists would prefer they not say? Gauche! http://is.gd/OQ2Xyk
Do you think WH got Egypt intel on Mubarak stepping down from same people who told Clapper that the MB was secular? Or different?
I’m going to need someone to explain to me: is Egypt still something “the US can’t control” or does Obama get credit for Mubarak ouster?
In the last 6 hours US intel declared that Mubarak was stepping down and that MB was secular. Big congrats all around champs!
Having said for years that Hezbollah would Lebanonize – and not being able to make that up any more – foreign policy experts are now saying MB is OK
Which is weird because we had a lot of Egypt experts on the case | RT @Jerusalem_Post: Egypt: Defiance Surprised US http://bit.ly/h6AVUG
There’s a very real possibility that Obama’s credibility is so low in the Arab world that he can say whatever he wants, bc who cares?
“Revolutions don’t end up for the reasons they began” – why is that so hard for Muslim Brotherhood apologists to understand?
This White House has an unerring instinct for hopping on the bandwagon just late enough to get zero credit, alienate everybody
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