Karen Hughes quits US diplomacy job -- accomplishing what?

Thus ends the two and a half year reign of former Bush campaign manager Karen Hughes as the State Department's head of American public diplomacy.  Her job was to turn around the world's negative image towards the United States.  We all know how well that has gone.

Astonishingly, on Halloween Condoleezza Rice called Hughes' work spectacular.  Spooky indeed:

Rice told the assembled State Department staff that Hughes carried outher public diplomacy work in "spectacular fashion." She listed herefforts toward Muslim outreach and other public diplomacy programs likea rapid response unit to counter negative stories about America andsetting up regional media hubs around the world that deployed ForeignService officers into local communities, as successes.

Spectacular fashion, eh?  Kind of like how, according to President Bush, the war in Iraq has been a catastrophic success.