Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

If you ever doubt who controls American foreign policy, consider the case of Chas Freeman. Freeman was, until today, Barack Obama’s appointee to chair the National Intelligence Council. No more. Today Freeman was forced to withdraw from the position.
Why you ask? Because, as Josh Marshall puts it, Freeman has been “far more critical of Israeli [...]

[The two videos above are of poor quality, but they are the only ones I could find of the interview. I will update when there is a better version on YouTube.]
President Barack Obama gave his first formal television interview to Al Arabiya Television. It was a remarkable interview, both in tone and in content. With [...]

Via The Heathlander:
John Bolton explains the Bush Administration’s Freedom Agenda:

A former top American diplomat says the US deliberately resisted calls for a immediate ceasefire during the conflict in Lebanon in the summer of 2006. Former ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the BBC that before any ceasefire Washington wanted Israel to eliminate Hezbollah’s military [...]

For some fun on a lazy Sunday, read the comments (comment 5,  comment 6, comment 7) by the poster from Bangladesh claiming to be both ‘Steve Johnson’ and ‘Abul Hashem’ in response to my post on Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Also, read my response explaining the fraud.
Enjoy.

I received another email from Rabbi Sue Levy. I wanted once again to share our continuing conversation with the reader. I thank Rabbi Levy for the opportunity to engage her in discussion about Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.
Rabbi Levy’s email is below followed by my response:

Dear Mr. Rahman,
 
It’s obvious to me that no words of mine [...]

Rabbi Sue Levi, a contributor to the Weekly Blitz, has sent an email in response to our email conversation regarding Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury. Her email and my response are below:

Dear Mash,
I want to clarify three things about Shoaib Choudhury and then I’ll drop the subject on this blog.
First, you proclaimed that, by definition, Shoaib [...]

On Sunday I wrote a post on Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a man who is facing sedition charges in Bangladesh. Late last night I received an email from Rabbi Sue Levy, a contributor to the Weekly Blitz, asking that I print a prominent retraction and an apology for my post. She said that if I did so, [...]

 
On January 16, 2007 Congressman Mark Kirk, Republican of Illinois, sponsored a sense of the House resolution demanding that the Bangladesh government drop all charges against Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a journalist facing sedition charges. According to the resolution:

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Bangladesh should immediately drop all pending charges [...]

The long awaited, much anticipated, and often pre-judged Iraq Study Group report was finally unleashed on Washington. Predictably, it was trashed, even before the ink was dry, in the progressive blogosphere for failing to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. However, I think dismissing the report as a "dud" or ridiculing it ignores [...]

 
Meanwhile the killing continues…

This farming community buried the al-Athamnah family Thursday, after marching through muddy streets bearing the bodies of the dead aloft and reaffirming in angry chants its commitment to war with Israel.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians squeezed through narrow lanes here a day after Israeli artillery shells killed 20 civilians, all but three [...]