Tuesday, June 03, 2003
AMERICA THE UNPOPULAR
Here's an article from the International Herald Tribune reporting on a recent Pew poll on attitudes abroad about America (and visa versa). It's about what you'd expect, with sharply anti-American views down, but still expressed by the majority in France and Germany. The poll found that anti-Americanism is all but universal in the Muslim world. Here's a quote from the discussion of those findings:
In fact, feelings are so intense in the Islamic world that Osama bin Laden was chosen by five Muslim publics - in Indonesia, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan and the Palestinian Authority - as one of the three political leaders they would most trust to "do the right thing" in world affairs.
Well, that about sums it up. For the anti-war crowd, this will be "proof" that the war was an unwise inflammation of anti-Americanism in the Islamic world. To me, it's proof that the Islamic world is, by the standards of civilization, really messed up.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:39 PM
