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To: Oral Roberts who wrote (6265)	5/17/2006 1:20:14 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 14758

Bad News, America: World Doesn't Like 'We the People' The Newhouse News Service via The Seattle Times ^ \| May 17, 2006 \| David Wood The United States long has been a source of irritation for the rest of the world, but the news is worse this year. While Europeans and Asians and Arabs increasingly have disliked U.S. policies or specific U.S. leaders in recent years, Americans were liked and admired. Polls show an ominous turn. Majorities around the world think Americans are greedy, violent and rude, and fewer than half in countries such as Poland, Spain, Canada, China and Russia think Americans are honest. "We found a rising antipathy toward Americans," said Bruce Stokes of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, which interviewed 93,000 people in 50 countries over four years. Few analysts expect more than marginal improvements, short of another Sept. 11. "In my judgment, you're going to see a lot of this hostility disappear only when various countries really feel they need friendly relations with the United States, probably for their own security," said Richard Solomon, a veteran diplomat and negotiator who is president of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a federally funded nonpartisan think tank. "It will probably take some major event for that to take place." The dislike is accelerating among youth, Stokes said. For example, 20 percent of Britons younger than 30 have an unfavorable opinion of Americans, double the percentage of 2002. -snip- (Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...