Karen Hughes was approved by the Senate last week as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy. Never heard of it? To put it mildly, Hughes has been hired to reverse anti-American sentiment throughout the world, especially the hostile Middle Eastern countries.

By way of Anne Applebaum, we become privy to the transcript of her uneventful acceptance speech to the Senate. This is priceless – she wants all those who hate America to know that she is “listening” to them:

“I want to learn more about you and your lives, what you believe, what you fear, what you dream, what you value most.”

HAHAHAHAAAA!!!! Damn, this woman has a creampuff job, does she not? Some Q & A for her, so that she doesn’t have to waste valuable “listening” skills:

They “believe” that America and its allies are evil.

They “fear” that America and its allies will continue to exist.

They “dream” of a violent and bloody end to America and its allies.

They “value most” the death to all Americans and their allies.

Oooooh, Miss Hughes has more up her sleeve, in the spirit of the Reverend Jesse Jackson, she stated that the four “E’s” – “engagement, exchanges, education, and empowerment” – could quash any and all anti-American sentiment that exists throughout the world.

The four “E’s” will surely engage in intellectual warfare with the beliefs of radical Islam. The four “E’s” will singlehandedly cure all second-generation British Muslims of the burning desire to obliterate themselves via suicide bombing aboard subways and buses. Easy peasy.

Empowerment to these radical Islamists includes bombs, smuggled artillery, and hijacked airplanes. Education has already been deployed by way of our flight schools, in addition to their very own Arabic texts promoting Wahhabi Islam, the extremist school of thought from Saudi Arabia. These texts display hatred and contempt for the western world, democracy, Judaism, Christianity, homosexuality, and all other such trappings that are part of everyday life in America. With every fiber of their beings, these would-be terrorists want us destroyed at all costs.

So sure, let’s listen and implement the four “E’s” – yeah, that’ll solve everything.