Just like the filthy fever swamps of anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-western bigotry – normally, such a kook as Freeman wouldn’t be a problem, but he’s to be the man advising President Obama on intelligence matters:
It should be pointed out that, despite his position as former ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Freeman seems not to have too deep an understanding of the history of the Middle East. For instance, after the first Gulf War, Freeman told the left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn that the prospect of an Iraq fractured by sectarian warfare was unlikely because, after all, the Shia and Sunni are actually pretty close pals.
“The behavior of the Iraqi Shia in the Iran-Iraq war convinced the Saudis that the Shia were not Iranian surrogates. Washington was obsessed by that idea, and attributed it to the Saudis. I don’t know where all this panic about the breakup of Iraq came from. After all, Mesopotamia has been there for quite a while-about six thousand years. Iraq is not a flimsy construction.”
The man knows nothing but the leftist bigotry he’s paid to parrot – and Obama, or his handlers, have selected him to handle the intelligence portfolio of the Administration! I mean, one must start to think that Freeman has some pretty nasty dirt on someone in the Obama Administration – if it isn’t that, then we have to go with Obama and his handlers being the most ignorant set of fools to ever govern a nation.