Obama to ISIS: We're sending tourists
Funding of pastry chef program is just latest grant to Mideast Steve Peacock
In addition to bombing ISIS as it marches across the Mideast, the Obama administration has devised a new, supplemental plan to address the negative impact the radical Muslim terror army and other destabilizing forces are having on the region: Dump millions more in U.S. taxpayer dollars into promoting tourism there.
The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, continues to focus on bolstering the lagging hospitality industry in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where the agency granted contracting giant Chemonics International yet another award to boost the viability of that business sector.
The latest project will focus on creating a new Bakery and Pastry Skills program at a Vocational Training Center in the city of Irbid.
The U.S. under both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations has launched programs over the past decade-plus in an attempt to increase tourism-related employment in Jordan.
The U.S. from 1951 through 2013 provided Jordan with economic and military aid totaling $13.83 billion, according to a Congressional Research Service report released last month and made available by the Federation of American Scientists.
Under Obama the U.S. has provided about $660 million in annual foreign assistance to Jordan; and in the year ahead, the U.S. and Jordanian governments “may try to reach a new five-year aid deal.”
The U.S. continues to assist Jordan as it views the nation as a moderate force in the Middle East.
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Funding of pastry chef program is just latest grant to Mideast Steve Peacock
In addition to bombing ISIS as it marches across the Mideast, the Obama administration has devised a new, supplemental plan to address the negative impact the radical Muslim terror army and other destabilizing forces are having on the region: Dump millions more in U.S. taxpayer dollars into promoting tourism there.
The U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, continues to focus on bolstering the lagging hospitality industry in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where the agency granted contracting giant Chemonics International yet another award to boost the viability of that business sector.
The latest project will focus on creating a new Bakery and Pastry Skills program at a Vocational Training Center in the city of Irbid.
The U.S. under both the Obama and George W. Bush administrations has launched programs over the past decade-plus in an attempt to increase tourism-related employment in Jordan.
The U.S. from 1951 through 2013 provided Jordan with economic and military aid totaling $13.83 billion, according to a Congressional Research Service report released last month and made available by the Federation of American Scientists.
Under Obama the U.S. has provided about $660 million in annual foreign assistance to Jordan; and in the year ahead, the U.S. and Jordanian governments “may try to reach a new five-year aid deal.”
The U.S. continues to assist Jordan as it views the nation as a moderate force in the Middle East.
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