Holy Shit! Who Is Running This Show???

[babylonsister]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003476.php

U.S. Embassy-Baghdad: Y Kant State Kommunikate
By Spencer Ackerman - June 19, 2007, 6:23 PM

There are about 200 Foreign Service Officers in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad. How many of them do you figure are fluent in Arabic? The question was posed in today's State Department press briefing, and here's the answer:

Question: How may Arabic speakers with 3/3 levels of proficiency are currently serving at Embassy Baghdad?

Answer: We currently have ten Foreign Service Officers (including the Ambassador) at Embassy Baghdad at or above the 3 reading / 3 speaking level in Arabic. An additional five personnel at Embassy Baghdad have tested at or above the 3 level in speaking. A 3/3 indicates a general professional fluency level.

Good to know that one of them is Ambassador Ryan Crocker. Crocker sent a cable to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on May 31 complaining that the Embassy does "not have the Department's best people."

[Jackpine Radical]

1. What, don't they teach Arabic at Regent University? (nt)

[baldguy]

2. Osama bin Laden is running this show

Through his agents George Bush & Dick Cheney.

[TahitiNut]

3. Colonial occupation forces often require the 'natives' to learn their language.

Tradition. :puke:

[babylonsister]

5. They've got "10"? Pleeeeze. You're right, throwupable, not tradition. nt

[Rex]

4. Mission Accomplished.

They built this massive spy fortress and made huge amounts of cash! Help make things work? Not anytime soon.