Bush's Muslim propoganda chief quits

[arcticpenguin]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/03/state.resignation/index.html

[quote]WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The head of U.S. public diplomacy efforts in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks resigned from her State Department post Monday, a U.S. official told CNN.
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[ Beers' "Shared Values" campaign -- a series of television ads portraying Muslim Americans in their daily life -- was sharply criticized in the few countries it was introduced. The series was eventually suspended when several Arab countries refused to broadcast them.
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[DrBenway]

These events do not inspire confidence.

I want so badly to believe that my government knows what it's doing.

A relative "friendship" with Saudi Arabia has existed because both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have intentionally avoided looking too closely at the cultural divide between the two civilizations. Neither side is prepared to openly deal with the deep philosophical differences between them.

U.S. Muslims feel they are "oppressed" in the U.S.

Muslims in the Middle East also believe that the U.S. restricts full practice of the religion of Islam. Not a good set-up for a few glossy commercials showing some shiny happy mosque-goers in Middletown, US of A. Such TV ads can only serve to call attention to the propaganda effort itself.

The Jews control the media in the US, dontcha know.

[corplinx]

Originally posted by DrBenway


A relative "friendship" with Saudi Arabia has existed because both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia have intentionally avoided looking too closely at the cultural divide between the two civilizations.

Remember the Saudi propaganda ads they played here in the US about how they are our best friends? Propaganda can be an effective tool. But not on the Saudis. Maybe after the religious police are canned and people can freely speak their minds it will.

Personally, I can't wait until we can move our base out of Saudi Arabia and into whatever the post-Saddam version of Iraq is. It must irk US soldiers in Saudi Arabia when they hear about women/girls trapped inside a burning building by religious police and allowed to burn to death inside because they weren't wearing the "proper" garb.

Iraq is a better strategic location for a base and it frees us to stop being so polite to a country that lets barbarians rule the streets.