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"Mixed messages, poor coordination and inadequately trained officials" are hampering America's overseas diplomacy, concludes the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy [5]. Many ambassadors - "the primary messengers for policy goals in their host country" - "are uncomfortable serving as advocates in the media and in front of mass audiences." More than one-fifth of U.S. foreign service officers overseas "did not meet the foreign-language speaking requirements of their positions." One commission member said post-9/11 visa delays were damaging international scholarship programs, "a key historical component of public diplomacy [6]. ... Are we so incompetent that in order to keep [terrorists] out we must keep everybody out?"
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[1] http://dev.prwatch.org/users/6/diane-farsetta
[2] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/public-relations/public-diplomacy
[3] http://dev.prwatch.org/topics/us-government
[4] http://www.addtoany.com/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Fdev.prwatch.org%2Fspin%2F2004%2F10%2F2947%2Fsorry-no-hablo-diplomacia&linkname=Sorry%2C%20No%20Hablo%20Diplomacia
[5] http://www.prwatch.org/spin.php?date=September%202004#1096084800
[6] http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Public_Diplomacy
[7] http://prweek.com/news/news_story.cfm?ID=223773&site=3