The United States is losing the war of ideas in the Islamic world, failing to elucidate its policies to Muslims wary of American intentions, a Pentagon advisory panel said.
Muslims object to "what they see as one-sided support in favor of Israel" and support for what they "see as tyrannies, most notably Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and the [Persian] Gulf states," the panel's report says. Thus, talk about "bringing democracy to Islamic societies ... is seen as no more than self-serving hypocrisy," it says.
