The Obama administration is preparing to join an international advisory group that the United States generally has shunned due to fears it would adopt anti-Israeli and anti-Western positions, US officials said Wednesday.
The officials told The Associated Press the administration plans to announce as early as this week that it will begin a formal relationship with the Alliance of Civilizations. The 5-year-old, UN-backed organization aims to ease strains between societies and cultures, particularly the West and Islam.
The Bush administration boycotted the group when it was founded in 2005 over because it feared the group would become a forum for bashing Israel and the United States. Those concerns were magnified a year later when the alliance released a report that officials in Washington said unfairly blamed Israel and the United States for many of the world's problems.
The decision to join grows out of Obama's desire to broaden US participation in international groups and improve its standing among Muslims. The officials said they had consulted closely with Israel on the decision to join the alliance. Israel has no plans to join, diplomats said.
The officials told The Associated Press the administration plans to announce as early as this week that it will begin a formal relationship with the Alliance of Civilizations. The 5-year-old, UN-backed organization aims to ease strains between societies and cultures, particularly the West and Islam.
The Bush administration boycotted the group when it was founded in 2005 over because it feared the group would become a forum for bashing Israel and the United States. Those concerns were magnified a year later when the alliance released a report that officials in Washington said unfairly blamed Israel and the United States for many of the world's problems.
The decision to join grows out of Obama's desire to broaden US participation in international groups and improve its standing among Muslims. The officials said they had consulted closely with Israel on the decision to join the alliance. Israel has no plans to join, diplomats said.
Note: The ship of fools ... so far, the United States has had more attacks by MUSLIMS on our soil and on our military bases in one year's time, then the entire time Bush was president. Seems to me America's ship is sinking, under the guise of this buddy-system with the Muslims. But, the Muslims have done so much for the United States, ... 9/11, troops all over the world fighing Islam, our young troops murdered in cold blood at Ft. Hood, panty-bomber attempt; car bomber attempt; ... and what's that guy down in Chile doing at the embassy who says we deseve to be kileld for what we did in Iraq? You know, the would-be terrorist from Pakistan, who was just refused a US visa? ... These Muslims will keep tyring - they promised they would - while Obama trips the light fantastic with his so-called Muslim buddies.
Oh, please, someone, please wake America up out of this nightmare! Bee Sting
