US struggles to get message across to Muslims
Bush Shocked & Over-Awed on PR Front
Channel News Asia Website:-
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/214401/1/.html
Channel News Asia Website:-
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/214401/1/.html
The Pew Reseach Centre survey of world opinion has shown that the Bush Administration is still unable to send the message of "War on Terror" across to Muslims.
The War on Iraq has been viewed as an illegitimate war that has given birth to a huge disaster the Bush Administration has yet found a solution to clear up, it hardly comes as a surprise to know that many Muslims feel hurt and are very affected socially because of the "War on Terror".
It certainly did not help when news of suicides at the notorious Guatanomo Bay detention centre rocked major newspapers. This event has given rise to speculation that detainees in Guatanamo Bay have been treated in such a way it has driven them to suicide. This totally repudiates the "values" the United Sates of America has been preaching to the entire world.
I really wonder, underneath all the diplomacy, do those allies of the US who have pledged to stand by Bush & Co. really know what they have gotten themselves into. Do they honestly believe his policies and actions are going to liberate the world of terrorism?
I believe that it takes two hands to clap. Diplomacy has never been America's strongest suit and probably never will be for a long long while (Do you hear me, Mr. John Kerry). I believe that President Bush has to STOP talking about peace and happiness and actually LIVE out peace and happiness. If it is going to take a formal apology to cool a few disgruntled "extremists" down then SO BE IT. He's been embarrasing himself so much since he took office, what's he got to lose in eating a little bit of humble pie.
The War on Iraq has been viewed as an illegitimate war that has given birth to a huge disaster the Bush Administration has yet found a solution to clear up, it hardly comes as a surprise to know that many Muslims feel hurt and are very affected socially because of the "War on Terror".
It certainly did not help when news of suicides at the notorious Guatanomo Bay detention centre rocked major newspapers. This event has given rise to speculation that detainees in Guatanamo Bay have been treated in such a way it has driven them to suicide. This totally repudiates the "values" the United Sates of America has been preaching to the entire world.
I really wonder, underneath all the diplomacy, do those allies of the US who have pledged to stand by Bush & Co. really know what they have gotten themselves into. Do they honestly believe his policies and actions are going to liberate the world of terrorism?
I believe that it takes two hands to clap. Diplomacy has never been America's strongest suit and probably never will be for a long long while (Do you hear me, Mr. John Kerry). I believe that President Bush has to STOP talking about peace and happiness and actually LIVE out peace and happiness. If it is going to take a formal apology to cool a few disgruntled "extremists" down then SO BE IT. He's been embarrasing himself so much since he took office, what's he got to lose in eating a little bit of humble pie.
posted by Clarence Tan @ 4:20 PM
1 Comments:
At 5:27 PM,
elaine x said…
perhaps if mr. bush was honest and quit calling the war a 'war on terror' but rather a 'war on humanity', we may be getting somewhere ... his disingenuineness or lying is his downfall. maybe one day, we will stop calling things by names that are only for the sake of propaganda and call them what they really are ... acts of violence on one another.
thanks for the post!
peace & harmony,
elaine
'freedom must be exercised to stay in shape!'
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