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US Embassy Kabul Features Las Vegas to its Muslim Audience
Who says the Embassy in Kabul is out of touch?On its Facebook page, the US Embassy in Kabul has run a feature on Las Vegas, noting that the place known to most Americans as Sin City is “synonymous with entertainment.” Entertainment here being synonymous with gambling, drinking and whoring.
What could possibly appeal more to a Muslim audience?
It gets better.
When a commenter named “Smock” on Embassy Kabul’s Facebook page raised these same issues, some drone in the Embassy’s Public Diplomacy section actually wrote this:
Dear Smock, Las Vegas is one of fifty-two cities being featured this year on Embassy Kabul’s Facebook. We appreciate your comments and feedback as to which future cities you would like to see featured.
We’re winning! Viva Las Kabul!
(I first learned of this piece of moral high ground from an excellent blog on US reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan called Hamsters on the Titanic, well worth a look. Be sure to check out the regular focus on absurdity column, called “Today’s Helping of Bacon Wrapped Pork Chop”)
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john brown said...
1Had the pleasure of citing the above in the Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review http://publicdiplomacypressandblogreview.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-11.html. Best, John Brown
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