Thanks George
You fucking asshat. From the Times Picayune:
The United States has often irritated the rest of the world, but lately it's gotten worse -- and more dangerous.Everything this man touches turns to shit.
In increasing numbers, people around the globe resent American power and wealth and reject specific actions like the occupation of Iraq and the campaign against democratically elected Palestinian leaders, in-depth international polling shows.
Analysts say America's image problem is pervasive, deep and perhaps permanent, an inevitable outcome of being the world's only superpower.
But there is worse news. In the past, while Europeans, Asians and Arabs might have disliked American policies or specific U.S. leaders, they liked and admired Americans themselves.
Polls now show an ominous turn. Majorities around the world think Americans are greedy, violent and rude, and fewer than half in countries like Poland, Spain, Canada, China and Russia think Americans are honest.
"We found a rising antipathy toward Americans," said Bruce Stokes of the Pew Global Attitudes Project, which interviewed 93,000 people in 50 countries over a four-year span.
The dislike is accelerating among youths, Stokes said. For instance, 20 percent of Britons under age 30 have an unfavorable opinion of Americans, double the percentage of 2002.
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My best friend's daughter lives in Scotland, and she's been there long enough to acquire an accent. She tells noone who doesn't already know that she grew up in the US.
Hah. Got here at last. Via Sideshow/What do I know?/Shakespeare's Sister(which crashed my browser)
" an inevitable outcome of being the world's only superpower "
Funny how America managed to be the world's only superpower all through the nineties without this happening.
Further along in the article some dolt named Solomon tries to claim it is all due to America taking the hard decisions, such as to topple Saddam Hussein, which France and Germany shirked. It doesn't seem to dawn on people that France and Germany, and Britain too, knew that Iraq would turn out this way right from the start. It's not like they haven't done this before, themselves. And of three hundred million people in America, no-one seems able to point this out.
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