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To: LindyBill who wrote (102717)	2/28/2005 10:03:36 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

Still failing on Public Diplomacy By It's MY blog too! From The Economist . The article is about the growing choices in arab media. Overall, a positive development. I was struck by this part however. Captain Josh Rushing, who was a military spokesman during the invasion of Iraq, says now that his commanders should have realised that the best way to reach Arab audiences was via al-Jazeera. “They should have identified this as mission critical,” he told an interviewer from America's partly state-funded PBS network last year. Amazingly, the American government still has no permanent, camera-trained spokesman capable of delivering its views in polished Arabic. That seems unbelievable. Is it really possible that the US can't get its collective act together enough to put out a consistent, polished message in arabic, the language of our enemy in the War on Terror? Sadly, it appears to be so.