Karen Hughes, a longtime friend of the president, has announced her resignation as undersecretary of state, effective at the end of this year. Hughes was supposed to enhance the image of the United States in the greater Middle East, but, in this week’s issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Stephen Hayes writes that she was never very well suited to the job as she “had never been to the region, had no expertise in the Muslims who largely populate it, and had never shown any real interest in it either.” Hayes goes on:
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