Yeah- they're known as the real STUPID segment of America.
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.....Kessler missed the results of a poll released earlier this week, from the German Marshall Fund, on European attitudes toward US foreign policy. In a survey of 6,001 Europeans from Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Italy, and the Netherlands, the GMF found that only 25% of respondents are flatly opposed to an invasion of Iraq. By contrast, 60% favored war, provided the US secure acquiescence from allies and the United Nations, while 65% believe that international terrorism is the greatest threat to their national interests.
"Despite recent press reports of rising anti-Americanism in Europe and an impending trans-Atlantic split," wrote the poll's authors, "at the public level, Europeans are in broad agreement when it comes to the war on terrorism, Iraq, and a host of other international issues."
In Kessler's defense, publication of the polls results arrived a couple of days after his story, so he cannot be blamed for ignoring it. Yet nowhere in Kessler's story is the German Marshall Fund mentioned, a strange omission given the central role it plays in trans-Atlantic relations. More importantly, Kessler plainly failed to capture important aspects of European attitudes that should have been evident even without prior knowledge of the poll's results. As a result, his article, carefully sourced as it was, offers at best an incomplete picture of European views.
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