The Issue of what happened in Chile, is very puzzling indeed. Some in the media want to infer that the United States is not "sensitive" enough to other countries feelings...what is going on here?
For a complete different view in the media read this article
From Japan Times Online. A REVEALING MELEE IN CHILE
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/geted.pl5?ed20041127a1.htm
Foreign governments understand and respect that. The problem lies not so much in what American security personnel do as in how they do it.
The Chilean guards were obviously feeling offended long before they harassed Mr. Bush's agent. Instead of congratulating itself on their comeuppance, the White House should perhaps be asking who and what had offended them.
That's called winning friends and influencing people.
Guess what Hashimoto, the Secret Service's job is to protect the president, not to make nice.
The macho Chileans got their asses handed to them. The Japanese of all people shoulsd know that feeling.
A well written but extremely stupid view of the incident from the Japan Times. The author (deliberately, imo) overlooks the fact that the Chilean security contigent had agreed to the security arrangements well beforehand, and reneged at the last moment. If the Chileans were, indeed, "offended" by the security arrangements for POTUS, well...they can just scratch future state visits. What right thinking country would trust foreigners with the safety of their head of state? That is negligence, if you ask me, and as wrong-headed as the article itself.
The Japanese article on your link could have been, and probably was, written by the typical left wing American hack. Aspersians rampant. Not who what when and where, but also the possibilities, how, and why. Bad journalism
through and through.