Yes, the world's only superpower, the richest nation on Earth with a $12 trillion economy, a national budget of $2.8 trillion, a Defense Department budget of roughly $500 billion, a White House PR budget in the billions and the home to the largest commercial advertising industry in the world is in the words of the great sage, Donald Rumsfeld, totally unable to match the public relations abilities of a relatively small loosely constituted transnational terrorist organization. 

Update (2/17/06):  Is the solution to most of the Bush administration's foreign policy problems really better PR?  Didn't anyone go talk to Don Rumsfeld before the war and tell him invading an Arab country in the heart of the Middle East might be something of a tough sell to most of the people in that region?  Of the people Bush would most likely pick to solve this problem, who would be the most ineffective: Condi Rice or our minister of public diplomacy, Karen Hughes?