{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"U.S. State Department - Ignorant of Al-Qaeda, Arabic and Islam","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article59107.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article59107.html'\u003EU.S. State Department - Ignorant of Al-Qaeda, Arabic and Islam\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ECritical foreign language skills continue to decline within the U.S. Department of State.  This crisis, which the Department has known about for over ten years, is a threat to U.S. national security.  The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that American diplomats in Egypt are unable to communicate with local officials, except through translators.  American diplomats in Turkey only read English-language Turkish newspapers due to a shortage of diplomats fluent in Turkish.  Less (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}