The kind of discrimination against Muslims — in this case on Delta Airlines — is going on all around the country. In this case, two Imams dressed in traditional outfits were removed from a Delta flight by the captain. The irony here is that they were flying to a conference on religious tolerance.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Richard Lugar (R-IN) supports substantial drawdown of US troops in Afghanistan.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy On The Rachel Maddow Show last night, I shared some of my thoughts about America’s very complex relationship with Pakistan — in which that government is part friend of American interests and part enemy.
(Steve Clemons talking about bin Laden photos with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC’s The Last Word — which then appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) Got about 100 emails and phone texts that yours truly had appeared in a montage on The Daily Show.
With all due respect to President Obama, he is making a serious mistake by not releasing a photo showing that Osama bin Laden was killed. President Obama is expecting the world to trust his word, America’s word, that bin Laden is gone — but there are many doubts about American credibility in the world today….
Over the last couple of days, I have talked to many senior level correspondents and executives at major Arabic news networks including but not limited to Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya. I asked them what they thought their viewing audience “needed to see” regarding the death of Osama bin Laden.
This just in on David Corn’s twitter feed: Carney saying Pakistan has been helpful in general re aQ, including info used for OBL raid. #whbrief Key words here are “in general”. This interests me a great deal because a couple of sources the night the raid became known told me that Pakistan had helped.
Politico‘s Ben Smith has the scoop that Sarah Palin and foreign policy advisers Randall Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb have parted ways. According to the article, the neoconservative Scheunemann said flatly to Palin, “We can’t give you the time.
