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March 22, 2004

Positives from Pew?


As promised, I have taken a closer look at the Pew Global Attitudes Project's "A Year After Iraq" report and found some surprising findings:

1.) 67% of French surveyed believe that the Iraqi people will be better off without Hussein.
2.) 65% of Germans surveyed believe that the Iraqi people will be better off without Hussein.
3.) More Russians than not believe getting United Nations approval is unnecessary for the use of force.
4.) The French like Americans more than Americans like the French.
5.) Most Europeans do not want the European Union to be as powerful as the United States.
6.) More than seven-in-ten Jordanians (73%) and nearly as many Moroccans (65%) express an unfavorable opinion of the U.N.
7.) 81% of Americans support the War on Terror.
8.) In the United States, there is significantly more sympathy for Israel than for the Palestinians – by a margin of roughly four-to-one (46% vs. 12%). This has been the case fairly consistently over the past decade.
9.) Over ninety-percent of French, British, and German citizens have an unfavorable rating of Osama bin Laden.

What does all of this mean? It means that global attitudes about the War on Terror are significantly more complex that the Pew Charitable Trust's press release reveals.

Brent Tantillo | Mar. 22, 2004 | 4:39 PM