The view of the US's role in the world has deteriorated both internationally and domestically
BBC News:
The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington had dealt with Iraq.
The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other foreign policy areas had been handled.
The poll, released ahead of President Bush's State of the Union speech, was conducted between November and January.
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 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.
The X Factor in 2008 -- Iran
posted by Adam Lawson @ 10:04 AM
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Why anybody in the US should give a shit what the rest of the world thinks is beyond. No matter what America does, we are wrong. If we try to help countries with aid, we are interfering and being imperialists. If we do nothing we are ignoring the world. Think about the tsunami 2 years ago. Who shows up? The 7th fleet. That asshole Kofi Annan took all the credit in the UN. Imagine if we didn't send any aid. The "inetrnational community" would still be bitching. I don't remember the French or Germans sending an aircraft carrier with food. Wait, they don't have one. China didn't do shit and the disaster was in their own back yard, but I guess that is OK
Look who put the poll out, the BBC, those fuckers haven't met a terrorist or communist they didn't like. As much as the world "hates" America, they don't hate us so much as to send the money or aid back, do they?
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