the dumb fucks just dont get it....
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1053965,00.html US panel shocked at Muslim hostility
Gary Younge in New York
Thursday October 2, 2003
The Guardian
Hostility towards the US has reached "shocking levels" among Arabs and Muslims around the world and left the country "vulnerable to lethal threats" unless it improves its image, according to a panel chosen by the White House.
The bipartisan group of Arab-American scholars, former diplomats and
opinion formers concluded that America's efforts to promote itself
positively to Muslims and Arabs was in need of an urgent overhaul.
"What is required is not merely tactical adaptation but strategic, and radical, transformation," the panel stated in its report, "Changing Minds, Winning Peace," which was leaked to the New York Times.
"A process of unilateral disarmament in the weapons of advocacy over the last decade has contributed to widespread hostility toward Americans and left us vulnerable to lethal threats," it concluded.
The US advisory group on public diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim world, which was assembled in June, found that the state department spent only three-tenths of 1% of the defence department's budget on advocating US policies.
...The panel recognised that the problems were most likely rooted in US foreign policy, but that Washington could do far more to present its side and rebut misinformation.