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Edwards, the OIP director, says she hopes that increased numbers of students studying abroad will resolve the disconnect with extracurricular leadership at home by forcing groups to be more accommodating...
...true for the U.S. also. The notion of liberation is an integral part of America's own image of its mission in Iraq, but the reality experienced by the Iraqis is a classic occupation. The sad fact is that colonialism and the occupation of foreign countries typically produce a disconnect between the self-image of the occupier, and the way he's seen by the natives. Life in the occupied country has little relation to occupying nation. And when resistance occurs - sometimes in the form of massacres, dismemberings, beheadings and other grotesque acts - it often prompts the occupiers to behave...
...There is a disconnect in his method of presentation and what he says he’d like to happen,” Kanji said...
...Differing reaction to the pictures simply highlights the growing disconnect between the way Americans see themselves and their presence in Iraq, and the way it is seen by Iraqis and the wider Arab world. Most Americans see themselves as liberators in Iraq; most Iraqis - 71 percent according to the Gallup poll - see them as occupiers. U.S. officials and officers in Iraq are now under orders to do what they can to explain to Iraqis with whom they come in contact what has transpired. But the damage may be irreversible - and the sharp decline in Iraqi consent for a continued...
...Some successful projects, like One Dollar Movie Nights, only require council funding if corporate sponsorship can’t be found—which is unlikely. Other events, like the unpopular yet enduring Fallfest, which cost $11,000 last year, remain as edifices to the council’s disconnect with students. And some projects, though well-attended, like the recent Busta Rhymes concert (2,700 attendees), require massive expenditures—a total of $40,000 from the council and other sources...