Posted on 06/14/2006 2:23:14 PM PDT by neverdem
WASHINGTON, June 13 — As the war in Iraq continues for a fourth year, the global image of America has slipped further, even among people in some countries closely allied with the United States, a new opinion poll has found.
Favorable views of the United States dropped sharply over the past year in Spain, where only 23 percent said they had a positive opinion, down from 41 percent last year, according to the survey. It was done in 15 nations, including the United States, this spring by the Washington-based Pew Research Center.
Other countries where positive views dropped significantly include India (56 percent, down from 71 percent); Russia (43 percent, down from 52 percent); and Indonesia (30 percent, down from 38 percent). In Turkey, only 12 percent said they held a favorable opinion, down from 23 percent last year.
Declines were less steep in France, Germany and Jordan, while people in China and Pakistan had a slightly more favorable image of the United States this year than last. In Britain, Washington's closest ally in the Iraq war, positive views of America have remained in the mid-50-percent range in the past two years, down sharply from 75 percent in 2002, before the war.
Support for the fight against terrorism led by the United States is also down, Pew found.
Although strong majorities in several countries expressed worries about Iran's nuclear intentions, in 13 of 15 countries polled, most people said the war in Iraq posed more of a danger to world peace. Russians held that view by a 2-to-1 margin.
"Obviously, when you get many more people saying that the U.S. presence in Iraq is a threat to world peace as say that about Iran, it's a measure of how much Iraq is sapping good will to the United States," said...
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The only love us when we are dying, as on 9/11.
What's new?
"They all hate us anyhow, so lets drop the big one NOW!" --- Randy Newman
i disagree. they love our money, our people and our support when they have earthquakes, fires, insurgencies, invasions, dictators....
I think envy is the correct term.
When the Portuguese were the master of the world, they demanded their nation to be feared in awe, not liked. They did not give a d*** if other countries hate them.
Likewise when the Spanish were the master of the world, they demanded their nation to be feared in awe, not liked. They did not give a d*** if other countries hate them.
Likewise when the Dutch were the master of the world, they demanded their nation to be feared in awe, not liked. They did not give a d*** if other countries hate them.
Likewise when the French were the master of the world, they demanded their nation to be feared in awe, not liked. They did not give a d*** if other countries hate them.
Likewise when the British were the master of the world, they demanded their nation to be feared in awe, not liked. They did not give a d*** if other countries hate them.
But now these nations want Americans, who are currently more powerful than any other country in the world, to be wanting to be liked and not feared?
Boom goes London,and boom,Paris...
More room for you and more rooooom for me...
And we care what the world's Chicken Little's think why? Leaders Leader, Political Whores read polls.
Now, ask me if I give a "rat's behind"!
... the Survey also polled those in the US itself and found only 40% had a favorable view of the US down from 50% in the previous year ... (sarcasm)
I was just talking today with one of my graduate students who is sweating it out about facing the prospect of having to go home to Iran because he is finishing his degree and graduating and doesn't have any good prospects about getting a job here. He doesn't want to go back there and be cannon fodder for the mullahs. He told me he is willing to live anywhere as long as it is in this country and nowhere else. Kind of changes one's perspective when you're looking at having to go back out into the cold.
Pew is infamous for their cooked polls. They are a very liberal institution whose chief goal is to elect Democrats.
[Q]: If you could leave the current hell hole of a country that you are in and move to the USA, would you?
99.9% YES!
Anti-Americanism is the worse I've ever seen it. Regardless of poll results, the global media has been successful at painting us as the bad guys.
It's shameful that our American media, lead by CNN, has been defacating all over our worldwide reputation for so long.
If the global view of the US is worsening it's probably
because global worming is fogging up the freaking lens.
*All George Bush's Fault*
We need to do what is right and let the chips fall where they will. If they don't like us, at least they'll respect us for not giving a d@mn.
Or when we're filling their out-stretched hands with money.
An important that you failed to mention...unlike the other nations you mentioned,the United States of America has never held,and will never hold,a single colony
Gosh, what about a poll of Americans' opinions of Pakistan, China, France, etc.? I'll bet the numbers are even lower.
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