Still in the wrong field
February 16th, 2007 | Tags: osv. | 1 Comment
“Can you tell a Sunni from a Shiite?” is the famous question used by reporter Jeff Stein to expose the ignorance of some U.S. counterterrorism officials about basic issues related to the Middle East.
In a book to be published next summer, Stein, who is Congressional Quarterly’s national security editor, will expand from columns he wrote after quizzing dumbfounded members of Congress and other officials about their knowledge of the Middle East.
I suspect that being a counterterrorism bureaucratrespected member of the intelligence community is fairly lucrative. Since I got 100% on this Sunni vs. Shiite quiz, though, I’m probably overqualified.
February 19th, 2007 at 03:17:21 PM (#)
My comment was eaten by the spam protection. If only you could click “back” without losing your comment. poop.
short version: assuming sunni for everything that’s not most of iran/iraq got me 7/8. I should have known Hezbollah, but whatever.