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Only a superpower would try to take the world's temperature thus.
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Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:34:38 GMT
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In the era of the focus group and opinion poll, I thought this US study was
very interesting:
Not such a super power after all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,856456,00.html
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Is the spread of American ideas good or bad? Here in Britain, 50% say bad. But
this soars to 67% in Germany, 68% in Russia, 71% in France - and rampant
hostility the moment you get near the Middle East. Try Turkey at 78%, Pakistan
at 81% and Egypt at 84%.
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Open societies could grow closed in the teeth of the cold war. They could
demand obeisance with menaces. But the picture that Pew - an American
institution - paints for America comes without menaces attached. It is one of
hearts and minds being lost, of allies flaking away, of nations like Japan,
Korea and Italy beginning to cross to the other side of the street. Can a
"superpower" deal with such distrust and dislike? No: not if it needs to be
loved.
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The lack of support from Turkey, Pakistan and Egypt must be exasperating given
the support these nations currently get from Bush…
Scott A
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