that woman, an employee of Biladi Television, seemed suspicious, so they screamed at her to stop

See, that woman, an employee of Biladi Television, seemed suspicious, so they screamed at her to stop.

When she didn’t, they fired two warning shots into her stomach. All perfectly innocent, right?

Except of course that the woman they shot couldn’t hear… now it’s been awhile since I read the SOFA,

but I don’t recall there being an exemption for shooting deaf people in the question of legal immunity

for crimes against civilians.

Jacob Heilbrunn of The National Interest, which is related to the Nixon Center, has written two very

interesting articles on the plight of the neo-cons after the Republican debacle in November that are

well worth a read.

The first, published on the journal’s blog December 19, addresses the departure of Joshua Muravchik

and Marc Reuel Gerecht, as well as that reported earlier of Michael Ledeen, from the foreign-policy

ranks of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Like Ledeen, Gerecht has found a new home at the

Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), which, so far as I can tell, is basically a front for both

Israel’s Likud Party and for the pro-Likud Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC). Muravchik, who, like

Ledeen, had been associated with AEI for some 20 years, is apparently yet to find a new perch.