The Economist, others say Bush just doesn't get it - by John Burke
What looks good to Americans doesn’t always play well in the rest of the world. This was strikingly true over the past week concerning three events that some foreign press tied together: the suicides at Guantanamo, the assassination of Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi, and Bush’s impromptu call on the new Iraqi prime minister. Among international publications, the overwhelming underlying theme behind the incidents was simple: PR. Whereas some Americans may have bought a deputy assistant secretary of state's assertion that the suicides “were a good publicity stunt to attract attention,” those outside the U.S. seized on the statement and ridiculed it as government PR.
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