Your very post demonstrates the volatility of public opinion, and the fact that polls are snapshots of current reactions, which makes them somewhat unreliable as predictors ...
We're not talking about the favorable opinion of the Supreme Court shifting for irrational reasons, i.e., a single opinion, by 20%. We're talking about an entire shift in Indonesia of 75% approval to 83% disapproval over a period of three years, based on multiple foreign policy decisions. You may be one of the best writers [in a grammatical sense] and have a very good vocabulary, but you use the skill to obfuscate rather than illucidate.
That is certainly arguable, but has nothing to do with a specific grievance, and everything to do with a reaction to the current role of the United States in the world.
No, it has to do with multiple grievances. Your words pretend as if there were a specific grievance that has affected world opinion and there isn't. The only binding view of the grievances, is that the US is using it's economic and military power as the sole superpower to achieve it's own objective[s] regardless of the impact to anyone else. What do you think the world reaction is to Bush now claiming that it didn't make any difference whether Iraq had any WMD...no big deal? All that does is reinforce the belief that the US invaded Iraq for financial reasons.
Although there is enough support for the WTO to continue working towards a true free trade regime, there is a lot of resistance in Europe....
Resistance in Europe. Do I need to remind you that the US has been found in violation of trade agreements on two occasions so far, has initiated tariffs on Canadian soft lumber, steel, and a variety of others. Do I need to point out that the US has increased farm subsidies by 65%?..and all you can point out is that Europe has a problem.
The US is the leading supplier of military arms to the third world...our response...if we didn't do it, someone else would and there's money to be made.
Arms treaties....you think that no one is paying attention that the US is funding the largest increase in nuclear weapons programs while claiming to be interested in non-proliferation.
Apostle of Multipolarity...altermondialistes...Great Satan of Power, Wealth, Consumerism, Libertinism, and Impiety...neoliberalism and its associated globalization
Academic verbosity, with no value.
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