NYT/Reuters: Indonesian Students Challenge U.S. Envoy (Karen Hughes)

[DeepModem Mom]

Indonesian Students Challenge U.S. Envoy
By REUTERS
Published: October 21, 2005


JAKARTA (Reuters) - U.S. goodwill envoy Karen Hughes got a earful from a group of mostly female Indonesian Muslim students on Friday, who expressed anger at the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and attacked Washington's foreign policies.

Tasked by U.S. President George W. Bush to polish America's image overseas, the undersecretary of state for public diplomacy is in Jakarta to meet leading Muslim clerics and students during a tour of the world's most populous Muslim nation.

``Why does America always act as if they were the police of the world?,'' Barikatul Hikmah, a 20-year-old student at the Syarif Hidayatullah University asked Hughes.

Lailatul Qadar, a petite 19-year-old student wearing colorful headscarves, added: ``It's Bush in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and maybe it's going to be in Indonesia, I don't know. Who's the terrorist? Bush or us?''

The U.S. embassy organized the session with some 15 students at the university, a moderate Islamic center of learning that has received U.S. funding and which produces some of the country's most influential Muslim thinkers....


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-indonesia-usa.html?hp&ex=1129953600&en=5f0009cac98c345a&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Seansky]

1. hmmm, what a hope it is to think such msg. would sink in karen's little

head

[clydefrand]

2. I don't wish the avian flu on anyone, but maybe a mild case

would make her stop traveling the world at our expense to spread propaganda for the cowboy.

[rodeodance]

3. won't you think that WH would learn for her last debacle to the ME!!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Yer doin' a heck of a job, Maudie...a heck of a job.

I'm THRILLED that WOMEN seem to be taking Hughes to task for sticking her nose where it's not welcome (as happened in Turkey)...

And in response to Barikatul Hikmah, George W. Bush's "America" BELIEVES it's "the police of the world," so...next question?

[rosesaylavee]

5. I wish she would come to my town and ask me what

I thought about the US. Oh, wait, they don't care what WE think. We just live here.

[Parche]

6. karen hews

I hope she gets a splinter up her......A$$
from her broomstick

[politicaholic]

7. Couldn't we have sent Venus Williams or even Jennifer Aniston?

I mean Karen Hughs for godsake, everyone knows she's an unscrupulous religious crack pot with a mixture of oil and koolaid running through her veins.

Man! GWB is just so friggin' out of touch its pathetic.

[redacted]

8. Thank you DMM

[Benhurst]

9. I think her cowboy manly grace doesn't work for foreign audiences. NT

[saltpoint]

10. Karen Hughes, Public Relations Whore.

Wasn't she supposed to return to Texas to be a more present parent for her teenaged son?

What happened to that goal?

On second thought, her teenager is probably a lot more emotionally mature than her boss.

And a lot more honest, too.

Well, anyway, good luck to ya, Karen, on your many travels. Oh, and better hold off on those postcards to Libby and Rove -- their addresses may change fairly soon.