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Bush will name to its friend Karen P. Hughes in a work that seems very difficult

Impossible mission, to change the bad image of USA in the world

Specially dedicated to the Arab world, the work that the political adviser of the president will execute

It is not problem of public relations, but of opposition to policies of Washington: critical

DAVID BROOKS CORRESPONDENT

New York, 12 of March. Tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, tan, sounds the theme of Impossible Mission in Washington, where it is about to to name to the new one in charge "to improve" the deteriorated image of the United States in the world, particularly in the middle East.

President George W. Bush is about to to designate to his intimate friend - political and expert adviser in design of propaganda Karen P. Hughes in the position of undersecretary of State for the Public Diplomacy, with the objective of which he dedicates himself "to repair" the image of the United States in the outside.

According to he revealed the newspaper The New York Times today, Bush will name to Hughes, that has been intimate advisory policy of the president from its times of governor in Texas, and previously the one in charge, immediately after the attacks of the 11 of September of 2001, of the coordination of public relations in the days of key war and in designing the "message" from this government to the town of the United States.

Hughes will have between its tasks of being one of the main figures in publicitar the campaign of the president to promote the democracy in the middle East and to look for to repair the image of this country everywhere, but with a particular approach in the Arab world, the Times informed .

But it is not secret that the "image" of the United States in the world and specially in the Arab countries is not only damaged, but that this country is perceived like enemy, with levels of hostility and rejection registered in investigations and soundings throughout these last three years.

They are not few, including within the estadunidense government, those that have expressed that this one is not a simple problem of public relations or trade, but a subject of massive opposition to the policies of Washington.

And the news do not help to the cause of the United States in the world. The organization Human Rights Watch informed that she obtained stopped official documents of the death of two in Afghanistan because of golpizas offered by estadunidenses soldiers.

One of those soldiers, according to classified information of the army of the United States, struck a Afghan prisoner of repeated way and maintained during five days, destroying its legs and knees to such degree that if it had survived both extremities must be amputated.

The soldiers have been accused of the crime that almost happened a year before the abuses committed in the prison of Abu Ghraib, in Iraq, by the estadunidenses military.

In fact, the defendant were integral of the company To of battalion 519 of military intelligence, the same one that was transferred to Iraq, where among other tasks settled down the famous unit of interrogations in the center of halting of Abu Ghraib, whose members have been accused of committed humiliations there.

The army first announced that the prisoners had died of "natural causes", but after an investigation of the New York Times recognized that they had been homicides.

On the other hand, the army exonerated greater general Barbara Fast, ex- commander of the military intelligence in Iraq, of all responsibility in the policies and orders that culminated in the abuses in the estadunidenses centers of halting in Iraq.

The person in charge of intelligence during the commando of general Ricardo Sanchez, between July of 2003 and June of 2004, was among other things the one in charge to supervise the center of interrogations in Abu Ghraib.

Not only that, but that now the army goes it to award when naming it in the position of commander of the Center of Military intelligence of the strong Huachuca, in Arizona, qualification seat and indoctrinates of the estadunidense army for military intelligence, that is, where the military interrogators are trained, among other things.

Now it is that the military detent responsible for the death of an Italian secret agent and to hurt to just released hostage Giuliana Sgrena was part of an operative one to assure the convoy the ambassador John D. Negroponte, incident who has caused a severe diplomatic crisis with one of the nearest allies of the United States, Italy.

Exporter of irony

And all this is only one part of the news of these last days.

The endless military occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, the interference in the internal subjects of Lebanon, the threats against Iran and Syria, the halting of thousands of Muslim believers in Guantánamo, Iraq, the United States and by the Central Agency of Intelligence in other not known countries, the decision to desinvitar to representatives of the Sinn Fein to the official festejos of the Day of San Patricio, the aggressive tone against the government of Venezuela and so many things more, not necessarily are generating a "good image" of the United States between the towns of the world.

It is possible to add that with the appointment of John Bolton - figure that has denounced the concept of the international community, the multilateral cooperation and discarded to Nations United like excellent instance in the ambassador position before that same organization, plus the rejection of international protocols like the environmental one of Kyoto, of the Court the International of Justice around the Convention of Vienna and the isolation of the estadunidense position in the international conference on women, recently celebrated here, nourishes an image very little pleasant of the United States in the world-wide scope.

Comedian Jon Stewart commented in winch of some of these news that perhaps the mission of the United States in the world is not the export of the democracy, but of the irony. In this context, Karen P. Hughes now will assume the stellar role in the next chapter of Impossible Mission.


Translated using an engine. Link, Original source in spanish