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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....

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To: Sully- who wrote (11860)7/30/2005 11:07:23 PM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
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Max Boot notices that there is an up arrow attached to opinion of the United States in some key countries around the world.

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The public opinion poll was conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, hardly a bastion of neocon zealotry. (It's co-chaired by Madeleine Albright.) Over the last three years, Pew surveys have charted surging anti-Americanism in response to the invasion of Iraq and other actions of the Bush administration. But its most recent poll — conducted in May, with 17,000 respondents in 17 countries — also found evidence that widespread antipathy is abating.

The percentage of people holding a favorable impression of the United States increased in Indonesia (+23 points), Lebanon (+15), Pakistan (+2) and Jordan (+16). It also went up in such non-Muslim nations as France, Germany, Russia and India.

What accounts for this shift? The answer varies by country, but analysts point to waning public anger over the invasion of Iraq, gratitude for the massive U.S. tsunami relief effort and growing conviction that the U.S. is serious about promoting democracy.
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And there's a down arrow for Muslim extremism and Osama Bin Laden. Perhaps the message is sinking in that terrorism achieves nothing for these Muslims except killing innocent people.

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