Pentagon spearheads nationwide foreign language push

[The Straight Story]

Pentagon spearheads nationwide foreign language push

By David McGlinchey
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The Defense Department on Wednesday called for the creation of a senior-level federal position to oversee and coordinate the development of foreign language skills in the United States.

Pentagon officials issued a paper detailing the need for the ongoing promotion of foreign language study. The paper, "A Call to Action for National Foreign Language Capabilities," was the product of the National Language Conference held at the University of Maryland in June 2004.

Defense officials said the report "responds to the urgent need for a national strategy on foreign languages and cultural competency."

"We must identify the critical nodes in our culture that can be influenced most effectively, and we must identify the means to influence them to cause a shift, now," said David S. Chu, the Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness. "We must find where and how we can best concentrate our effort in order to produce significant change."

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[Algorem]

1. Especially the oil languages.

[HawkerHurricane]

2. Are they going to throw out the ones who they claim are Gay still?

like at the military's Monteray Language Institute?

[bemildred]

3. May I suggest better funding for our schools to Mr. Chu?

He sounds like a typical DOD fuckwit, but what the heck.

[hatrack]

4. No, no, NO!! We can't have frills like "foreign language" classes!!!!

And what would our children learn in schools like this? They'd probably sneak Darwinism into schools, wrapped in an innocuous disguise of "French class" or "Spanish club", that's what!

Not in MY America!!!!!!!