Posted on 09/09/2009 6:43:31 AM PDT by Mr Fuji
WASHINGTON – European support for the U.S. president's handling of foreign policy has soared since President Barack Obama took over from former President George W. Bush, but Europeans continue to view major issues including Afghanistan, Iran and global warming differently than Americans view them, a poll released Wednesday found.
Among those polled in the European Union and Turkey, about three-fourths, on average, said they supported Obama's handling of foreign policy compared with about a fifth who said the same for Bush last year, according to the survey. It was conducted by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a nonpartisan policy institution that promotes trans-Atlantic cooperation, and the Compagnia di San Paolo, a research center in Turin, Italy.
The results were especially pronounced in Germany, where support shot up 80 percentage points to 92 percent, and in France, where it rose 77 percentage points to 88 percent.
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No surprise really. Europeans by and large opt for the “bend over and grab your ankles” style of foreign policy.
Good for them. Enjoy bowing.
Isn't that fantastic? We're liked!
Misery loves company.
This is SURE proof that he is on the wrong track.
These are the same whining weasels who needed to be rescued at least TWICE in the past century by thousands of dead and wounded American Heroes. The same nutjobs who killed each other off in one mindless war after another for over 2,000 years. The same base cowards who are allowing their countries to be stolen from under their noses by the followers of a mad desert bandit, while they rape and assault their women, slaughter their men and impose their lunatic Sharia law in the shadow of what once represented itself as a great civilization.
What is the greatest historical miracle is how these people actually created such a great nation as ours.
They hold socialist views just like our POS president.
But of course. They know the WH is occupied by a guy (and an admin.) who despises the U.S. even more than they do.
Ask them what we’re doing differently. Not what we’re saying, but how is Obama handling Iraq and Afghanistan differently than GWB?
Yep, this is the same people that gave us “peace in our time”
This is a surprise?
The Germans must miss der Fuhrer.
What foreign policy? Sounds like the Europeons are into some heavy drugs.
LOLOLOL..........oh aren’t we lucky.
The weaklings of world are now united.
Why do we care? and why are they even asking the eurotrash what they think? That is why we fought The Revolution.
Uhh, just exactly WHAT "foreign policy?" I don't see any "policy" at all.
Observation of the Day.
Several posts above this one is an article about the US losing it’s #1 spot as most competitive nation. Lost it to Switzerland.
Little wonder that the Euros are cheering us on...
That was my reaction, too. Maybe, by policy, they mean appeasement, retreat, apologies and neglect. That's what the current foreign policy of the Obama Administration looks like to me...
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