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...deeper meaning, and there is much to explore on “The Golden Archipelago.” The deluxe edition of the album includes a fifty-page booklet, “The Golden Dossier,” to accompany the carefully crafted songs. The dossier contains pictures of foreign islands and birds, and excerpts of explorers’ memoirs that have traveled to such islands. One excerpt in particular, where an explorer speaks of shooting natives, was clearly chosen to add to Meiberg’s already overdrawn sloganeering, which after listening to the album is already tiresome...
America’s public diplomacy has a budget of about one billion dollars a year and a staff of thousands of foreign service officers and civil servants who are engaging in, among other things, broadcasting in 53 languages, staffing exchanges, deciding on Fulbright fellowships, and building websites. Since 2001, budgets and staff have increased and, in all fairness, exchanges, broadcasting to Arabic-speaking countries, and Internet tools have improved. But the question remains—are we better able to communicate with the world today than we were before 9/11? The increased budgets, augmented staff, and more modern websites...
...frequent finding concerns the nature of our messages to our key audiences. The consensus maintains that our messages are at best poorly received by “the Arab street,” and in some cases, insulting. Not only do we have an inadequate number of Arabic-speaking foreign service officers but our communications are also hindered by an absence of meaningful cultural sensitivity. Another common finding is that there is “insufficient” bureaucratic coordination from the White House. Additionally, there are too many educational and cultural exchanges with historical Cold War allies...
...Dutch represent just 2.3% of the 86,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, but they have the eighth largest national contingent in the country and one of the highest contributions as a proportion of both their population and overall national army. While Uruzgan province does not face a security threat as severe as the threats in Helmand and Kandahar, it is still volatile: 21 Dutch soldiers have been killed since the mission was first deployed in 2006. The deployment was initially scheduled to end in 2008 but was extended by two years because no other NATO member state offered a replacement...
...firms have good reason to rush to Libya. The oil-rich nation is sitting atop a giant cash surplus, with foreign reserves of nearly $140 billion. Muammar Gaddafi, who has ruled Libya for four decades and was once described by Ronald Reagan as "the mad dog of the Middle East," has said he intends to spend a lot of that money overhauling his country's creaking infrastructure, which was barely updated through more than two decades of international embargoes. (U.S. sanctions were lifted in 2004 following Libya's abandonment of its nuclear weapons program.) (See pictures of Colonel Gaddafi...