How We Judge Success

Given that whenever there's an acceleration of Americans (or Iraqis) dying violent deaths CENTCOM and the Bush administration see it as a mark of success (the better we're doing, the more we're hated, fired upon, resented, and killed), there should be corks a'poppin in Dohar and DC.

Mubarak: Arabs Hate U.S. More Than Ever

Mubarak, who visited the United States last week, told French newspaper Le Monde that Washington's actions had caused despair, frustration and a sense of injustice in the Arab world.

"Today there is hatred of the Americans like never before in the region," he said in an interview given during a stay in France, where he met President Jacques Chirac Monday.

He blamed the hostility partly on U.S. support for Israel, which assassinated Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi in a missile strike in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) Saturday weeks after killing his predecessor, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.

"At the start some considered the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred of the Americans. After what has happened in Iraq, there is unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," Mubarak said.