Posted on 02/09/2007 12:25:46 PM PST by flixxx
A new poll on Thursday underscored deep Arab unhappiness with the United States but said the negative image could be repaired if Washington brokered a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace agreement.
The survey of 3,850 people in six Arab countries rated President George W. Bush as the most disliked world leader, while the United States and Israel were viewed as significantly greater threats than Iran.
Sixty-seven percent of the respondents said the United States could improve its image by brokering a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement.
A smaller number - 33 percent - said this image change could happen if Washington withdrew its troops from Iraq.
The results show the Arab-Israeli conflict "remains the central prism through which people are evaluating the United States", even when the international focus is on the Iraq war and nuclear crisis with Iran, said Shibley Telhami of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.
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George W. Bush is not all the popular among Dem'crats, either....
Oderint dum metuat
Seeing how he's really got nothing to lose by pissing off the ME further, Bush ought to subtly suggest American Muslims break away from the tyrannical version of Islam observed in the rest of the world. Perhaps they ought to take a stab at a re-write. At least there's decent institutions to protect them from being savaged. Sure there will be attacks but it could be worth it to try.
Feather in his cap.
So the Presidency of the United States is reduced to being a popularity contest, then?
Wait a minute? Now the arabs hate us?!?!?
When the war becomes large and global, Bush will be remebered as a great leader. The liberals traitors. And Europe will be remembered as disgusting.
YAWN ...........
Wake me up when the arabs come up with some thing new.....
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