Great post here about America's system of public diplomacy, it's history, it's constraints, and what could be done to change it. So wonky it's ludicrous.

Since I hate just linking to things without comment, let me also note, unrelatedly, that the truth of the allegations against Galloway is important insofar as the "evidence" against him came from the Ahmed Chalabi-linked Iraqi Oil Ministry. The same Oil Ministry that's producing many of the accusations in the Oil-For-Food scandal...