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...government agencies based in Basra after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion expected to be received as liberators. But they failed to convince locals that they could deliver on their promises of reconstruction and development, leaving young Basrawis prey to the blandishments of the militias, says Hilary Synnott, the British diplomat who presided over southern Iraq from July 2003 to January 2004. "In the early days, the Western narrative was that the people shooting at us were al-Qaeda and former regime loyalists," Synnott says. "That narrative continued long after the development of an insurgency [led by] disaffected youth who didn...
...special envoy made Cairo the first stop of his first Middle East tour. Last week in Washington, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit, who bitterly sparred with former Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice over Nour, became the first Arab counterpart to meet with Obama's top diplomat, Hillary Clinton...
...varied choice of instruments was fitting. Two guitars and a traditional drum set gave the music a more Western feel, while the n’goni, or African lute, and vocalist Naba Traoré added more traditionally African sounds. The well-traveled daughter of a diplomat, Traoré composes music that reflects her diverse influences. One of the most successful instances of this integration was her rendition of the Billie Holiday song “The Man I Love,” in which she adapted both lyrically and melodically. Traoré also incorporated funny ditties that she learned...
...President Barack Obama and his counterparts in the western hemisphere are serious about improving the dysfunctional dance known as U.S.-Latin American relations, they need only look at what transpired in Ecuador this weekend. President Rafael Correa rather petulantly expelled a U.S. diplomat on Saturday. He did so because the diplomat rather high-handedly sent Correa's national police commander a letter saying the U.S. was pulling $340,000 in aid to Ecuador's anti-drug cops, because Correa decided last year not to let Washington have a veto over who runs that force and even who works...
...inability or refusal to realize that Latin Americans aren't as obsessed with the drug war as los yanquis are - and that they tend to feel humiliated by imperious U.S. conditions like those set on aid for Ecuador's drug police. Correa's chief complaint against the U.S. diplomat, Homeland Security attache Armando Astorga, was "the insolence to pretend that Ecuador is a colony of the U.S." (Neither the U.S. embassy in Quito nor the State Department would comment...