U.S. Is Losing the PR War

 Kuwait to U.S.: Stop torturing prisoners

Regardless of whether you agreed with the Iraq invasion last year or whether or not torture can be justified in certain circumstances this year, the really important thing is that the U.S. is losing the Public Relations war everywhere except in the U.S. itself. This is not a recipe for creating democracy in the heart of the Middle East, its a recipe for disaster.

Here in the west we hear rumours of Death Squads and prisoner abuses. In the Arab world these are treated as fact and does not endear the Americans to anyone in that region despite of what they thought of Saddam Hussein.

The situation is rapidly deteriorating and I do not believe that the current Administration has the ability to turn it around.