Juan Cole’s Informed Comment may offer comments that are informed, but they aren’t necessarily well thought out. Cole, of course, criticizes CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr for her sympathetic Twitter praise of Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. So help me understand this. Nuri al-Maliki, still the Iraqi prime minister for the moment, expressed his appreciation for the […]
Quotes of the Day II
Octavia Nasr, CNN chief Middle East correspondent for twenty years tweeted, Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah… One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot. Yesterday, she was fired. Josh Marshall at TPM did a little sleuthing and questions the extent of Fadlallah’s Hezbollah connection – and thus the degree […]