US feared by foes and friends

[eleonora]

By Jon Leyne
BBC State Department correspondent




"US standing continues to deteriorate around the world

Discontent with the United States and its policies has intensified in the year following the war in Iraq, according to an annual poll of global attitudes towards the US.

On a miserable, drizzly day in Washington, Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Centre said: "The results of this survey were as gloomy as the weather outside."

The image of the United States is as negative as it was a year before, and even in the UK, arguably the closest ally of the US, approval of the world's lone superpower "tumbled".

And while the Pew Global Attitudes Project showed slight improvement in attitudes in the Muslim world towards the US, a great divide still exists.

And the report showed that those negative attitudes toward the US will fuel support for continued attacks against Americans..."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3518412.stm


So...who said we're making progress and moving towards a SAFER AMERICA?

[Sugarbleus]

1. We've got lunatics running the assylum....

bush must go PDQ!!

[sweetheart]

2. Arguably Canada is the US's closest ally

Just cuz blair gives bush blow jobs does not make britain the ho
of choice.

This shrubster has gotta go, and then we can look at repairs.

[dand]

3. To think that three years ago under Clinton,

we were welcomed everywhere, now we are pariahs, it breaks my heart.

[Moderator]

4. Please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x425959