Clearly they all look alike to him [Bannon]

[davidgillon]

Oh, this is so unfortunately classic American abroad that it would be cliche, but for Bannon being Trump's racist-in-chief:

The Intercept has looked into an story Steve Bannon tells about recognising the Muslim 'threat' when his ship docked in Karachi when he was in the USN.

Just one problem, the other details he gives, and the ship's cruise book, show that they were actually docked in Hong Kong.  All those Muslim hordes that haunt his dreams? Chinese.

To make things worse, Bannon was the ship's navigator.

Full article here

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[sovay]

To make things worse, Bannon was the ship's navigator.

Oh, man, I wish I had been drinking something as I read that line.

[davidgillon]

Your keyboard is glad you weren't ;)

[redbird]

Victoria Harbor is distinctive and widely photographed, even if they never let him on shore.

I suspect the lying bastard knows this, but thought "I was there" is a better story than "I know this because I heard it on television."

[davidgillon]

Whether he thinks he was there or not, "The Brits were still in charge" re Pakistan in the '80s is pretty shockingly ignorant for someone elbowing his way into a foreign policy role. Independence was in 1947, by the late '80s there'd been 3 Indo-Pakistani wars and the US was seriously concerned about the Pakistani nuclear programme and its connections to Iran.

Either you know this stuff, or you aren't fit for a foreign policy role, and you certainly aren't fit for a seat on the NSC.