That’s one thing Americans don’t understand, most of them anyway. Foreign news orgs get a LOT of mileage out of anything that our politicians say that is helpful to their cause. I used to listen to a lot of shortwave before the rise of the internet, and Cuba in particular, used idiotic comments such as Sen. Reids as *propaganda*.
That “Special Forces Army Ranger” Jesse guy was plastered all over the Arab world news, you can bet on that. I know it sounds harsh, but in any sane world he would have been shot, because of the damage he has caused, and to serve as a lesson to others who might contemplate activities like that.