...nonsense like this will be one of the reasons:

Is this what the U.S. State Department thinks America is really like? How many men, outside a tiny subset in major cities, are the primping, feminized "metrosexuals" the article lauds? Not many. You cannot enhance understanding between one people and another by presenting a false version of one side.

But more importantly, is this the way to "build bridges" between the Arab world and ourselves? Does the State Department believe that Arab males — some of whom do not permit their wives and daughters to go out in public without a male family member as escort, others of whom think nothing of killing a daughter who dishonors the family by fraternizing with a boy — are going to be impressed with a vision of America in which males are feminized "exfoliated," smooth-skinned eunuchs?

Well, it's not like we'd want to publish one-sided articles or anything like that!

As the LAT condemns today, such efforts would be propaganda, and is as unthinkable as reading other gentlemen's mail!

So, better to write about moisturizers than about why we might be in the right (Heaven forfend!).

Interesting that they chose a "Public Relations Account Executive" as an example, as opposed to somebody who actualy works for a living- but this is the kind of overpaid dweebs the State Department is full of. What percentage of State Department employees have actually held a screwdriver? My guess: about 0.05- probably the same percentage of them that have ever actually held a rifle.

The State Department produced that article that way for one reason. That's who THEY are, a bunch of metrosexual, account executives, who have never broken a sweat or held a gun.

Iraq, or actually, the Middle East is simply the Account De Jour. French being the international language of negotiation. Uh Oh french again.

Calling Mr. Kerry, calling Mr. Kerry, sorry he's out getting moisturized.