KNOWING THE ENEMY: CAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS REDEFINE THE "WAR ON TERROR" - GEORGE PACKER

 
KNOWING THE ENEMY: CAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS REDEFINE THE "WAR ON TERROR" - GEORGE PACKER (NEW YORKER, DECEMBER 11): The choice of a high-level political operative (Karen Hughes) to run the government's global-outreach effort suggests that the Bush Administration sees public diplomacy the way it sees campaigning, with the same emphasis on top-down message discipline. "Let's face it," an American diplomat with years of experience said. "All public diplomacy is on hold till George Bush is out of office."
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/061218fa_fact2 (items on pd toward the end of the article)