Karen Hughes, the Bush confidante who was responsible for repairing America's image in the world, is resigning. This sounds a bit like a farce -- of course she's resigning. We have no public image to speak of, are widely loathed, and she's failed. Au contraire, says Fred Kaplan. She's actually done the best she could do in an utterly impossible job, and once she realized it was impossible, has been determinedly building up the office's infrastructure so that the next president, if they decide to pursue policies that won't render America an international pariah, can put it to good use. And plus: Do you really want to bag on any Bush administration who sent the awesome Ozomatli on a worldwide concert tour?
