London, England (CNN) -- The Obama administration's attempts to find countries prepared to re-settle Guantanamo Bay detainees crop up in many of the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.
And the approach taken by U.S. officials working overseas is custom-tailored for each country.
Take efforts to persuade Belgium, for instance. Politically crippled by an apparently intractable north-south divide, it is a country struggling profoundly with its sense of identity. And that offered diplomats an apparent opening:
"For the past few months, Embassy Brussels has been working to set the stage for a change in Belgium's self-concept as a small, meek country living in the shadow of France and Germany, to a country that can show leadership in Europe in spite of stretched financial and material resources". CNN
