Ambassadors Urged to Promote U.S. Policy

[kayell]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=542&e=1&u=/ap/20040928/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_diplomacy

WASHINGTON - U.S. ambassadors should spend at least 25 percent of their time explaining American foreign policy to local audiences, a panel commissioned by the Bush administration recommends, in an effort to influence public opinion overseas.

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Highlighting the urgent need for the United States to spread its message overseas, Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said in an interview last weekend that the Iraq (news - web sites) war has increased anti-American feelings in the Muslim world, although he said he believed that would eventually be overcome when Muslims saw free elections scheduled soon in Afghanistan (news - web sites), and later in Iraq.

"We have seen an increase in anti-Americanism in the Muslim world," Powell said in the weekend interview. "I will not deny this, but I think that that will be overcome in due course."

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[BlueEyedSon]

1. "explaining American foreign policy to local audiences"

should really fuck us up internationally:

"Well, we are going to kill you all and destroy your infrastructure until you pretend to have elections to choose the guy we pick to be your new dictator..."

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=869122