BBC Poll: View Of America In The World Worsens

• January 23, 2007

Sigh…

BBC – The view of the US’s role in the world has deteriorated both internationally and domestically, a BBC poll suggests.
The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington has dealt with Iraq.
The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other foreign policy areas have been handled. . . .
The number of those who said the US was a positive influence in the world fell in 18 nations polled in previous years.
In those countries, 29% of people said the US had a positive influence, down from 36% last year and 40% two years ago.
Across the 25 countries polled, 49% of respondents said the US played a mainly negative role in the world.
In Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines and the US most of those polled said they thought the America had a positive role.
But among Americans, the number of those who viewed their country’s role positively fell to 57% – six percentage points down from last year and 14 percentage points down from two years ago.

Oh well. The war on terror isn’t a popularity contest.
Plus, all this anti-Americanism is media driven anyway. The domestic media, and especially the international media, hate President Bush. Therefore, nothing he does on the international stage is going to be cast in a positive light. Which sounds simplistic, but it’s true. After the pounding the world’s citizens have gotten from the media about Bush being an arrogant war aggressor (among other things) should we really expect them to feel any differently? Especially given that most of them (including Americans) don’t get information about our President and his policies from anywhere but the biased media?
President Bush has used America’s military might to cast down tyrants and liberate two oppressed nations where millions of people live, accomplishments that represent a more positive impact on the world than anything the UN has done in the last two decades, yet he may go down in history as one of the most widely hated U.S. Presidents ever.
Which just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished.

Tags: International Scene, Media, Politics, The Loony Left, War On Terror

http://Array Bat One

I cannot imagine why anyone old enough to shave would care about this.
gavin brown

Next time you feel like pulling your head out of your butt to gawk at America, try wiping the crap out of your eyes first.

is that all you can come up with when someone sayes something you dont like. the war is a scam what did the village idiot say “the hardest part of my presidency was to link iraq with the war on terror” the war is costing a load of cash and if you listen to english service men the money is being stolen by big business and your drugged out military personnel.
wake up to the rorts stupid seppos sent your president back to the village where they are missing their idiot before you go down the shit tube like ya did in vietnam
http://www.indymedia.org/en/index.shtml Angry Vertebrate

Oh well. The war on terror isn’t a popularity contest.–Rob

And it isn’t a war on terrorism either?
Anh

Do they have a poll show how much we are being fear? That the one that count.
Friend of USA

The MSM only “report” bad things about USA day in day out and then ask people how they feel about the USA.

Should we be surprised of the result?

Here in Canada, in the French speaking province of quebec you should hear and see the day in day out USA bashing that our MSM spits out like venom.

I could give you examples all day, but this little “anecdote” should give you a good idea,

Our state sponsored tv station (called Radio-Canada, it is the French speaking version of the CBC) did a report/documentary on Canadian oil sold to the USA.

They edited part of president Bush speech where he said ” America is addicted to oil, and this must stop ”
They only kept the part where he says ” America is addicted to oil “

You have to understand that most of the 7 million people living in quebec speak French only and do not watch English speaking television and certainly do not watch American president state address/speeches.
So they have no idea of what president Bush actually said.
They have to rely on their MSM.
And they just buy the anti-USA venom that their MSM spits as if it were the ultimate and purest truth.

Ok now some of you must be thinking that little editing about being addicited to oil was not so bad, right?

No it is pretty bad, and here is why;

Now a lot of my friends after having watched that report are more convinced than ever that the war in Irak is a “war for oil “; president Bush pretty much admited to it!

The average quebecer must be hearing thousands of negative things like that in a year.

That is one tiny example but the MSM is constantly , relentlessly doing it; the MSM is turning everyone against the USA, it is doing little bit by little bit, but it adds up.

This is not information, it is brainwashing, it is anti-USA propaganda.

It is sick.
HG

And it isn’t a war on terrorism either?

AV,

Next time you feel like pulling your head out of your butt to gawk at America, try wiping the crap out of your eyes first.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

And yet some do.

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