[PurpleMan]

"I'd be willing to bet that most of the people in congress would be unable to answer most of those questions."

This issue that HE was unable to tell the difference. Not every one of the 435 reps are going to be Head of the House Intelligence Committee.

[McGavin999]

Oh, I definitely agree with that. The point I'm making is that all of them need some serious educating on what is happening in the world. It's THEIR job to know more than we do, but that isn't the case at all.

And you're right, the head of the intelligence committee is criminal if he doesn't know the difference between Shiia and Sunni.

[plain talk]

Bingo. The head of the intelligence committee not knowing something so basic is chilling.