According to a New York Times article from February 5, 2004: “…the Bush administration was obliged to acknowledge that its muscular post-9/11 foreign policy and military interventionism had damaged American prestige abroad so thoroughly that ‘it will take us many years of hard, focused work’ to restore America’s international standing. Particularly hurtful were disclosures in 2004 of torture and humiliation meted out by Americans to prisoners in Iraq, Guantanamo, and Afghanistan.”
– Jonathan Randal, Osama, Page 290