On Karen Hughes' (second) departure from the Bush administration...

On Karen Hughes' (the last remnant of George W Bush's close Texas circle) departure from the administration, second time around, I couldn't help but be amused by it.

The administration highlights her "achievement" on increasing efforts and responses to Muslim world, in the hope of increasing US standing in the eyes of the world. If her success is measured by how much more Bush had agreed to commit to the efforts, she certainly can be seen as a success. But this administration does what it normally do, which is to measure success by the amount of input, and NOT by the output (ie. how much was achieved by the input).

So, here we are, with polls after polls that there's no improvement in the US standing in the eyes of Muslims or the world at large. I thought that was the main focus of Hughes' job, and she failed utterly.

No matter, Bush would still see it as success, since she's a close friend, and he's put in $900 million to it, right? *shake head* This president completely baffles me. He defies logic (in fact, I'm not sure if he knows how to spell the word "logic") and common sense in any argument.

While Americans complains about the kind of "corrupt politics" that Chinese government (and Chinese as a whole) practice, that everything is based solely on "relationship," US politics, at least according to Bush, is exactly that. It's disgusting.