Associating With Known Arabs
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 16th, 2009 at 10:11 amKevin Drum wonders why the Obama team seems to have been intentionally avoiding making news out of the fact that they’re meeting with Arab-American and Iranian-American foreign policy scholars while publicizing their meetings with Jewish experts.
Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s that hard to figure out. Remember the Rashid Khalidi mess? Any Arab Middle East experts who Obama confers with are going to get smeared as radicals.



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