[dighton]

"We are seen as arrogant, ignorant, loud, and we don't listen,'' said Guittard, a former State Department official who worked for five years in the Middle East.

Gone native.

[Cecily]

I wonder how our supposed arrogance, ignorance, loudness, and inability to listen stack up against all those same qualities in your typical ME dictator and dictator flunky class.

State Department officials have no clue on this earth, and probably never will.