America - Up and Down

A couple of reports on the Beeb caught my eye today. One suggets that Americans are going to have a harder time getting their way in Pakistan, whose people are getting weary of being targeted due to the War on Terror:

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Pakistanis believe a deadly bombing campaign in the country is the price they are paying for missile strikes and large scale army operations against the militants. Nearly a thousand people were killed in suicide attacks last year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7323982.stm

The good news is that Americans are a little more popular than they were. Here's the survey in full: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_04_08_globalview.pdf
Apparantly support for Russia has shot up, so fair dues there. Pakistan, Israel and Iran get the worst results, though what Pakistan did to deserve them escapes me.

If you're interested, I 've dug up an old article by Krauthammer about increasing global support fot the US. It's a howl, I tell ya. It came out around the time of the Australian elections but of course, that's not mentioned.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2007/1119/1195251431402.html

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A couple of reports on the Beeb caught my eye today. One suggets that Americans are going to have a harder time getting their way in Pakistan, whose people are getting weary of being targeted due to the War on Terror:

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Pakistanis believe a deadly bombing campaign in the country is the price they are paying for missile strikes and large scale army operations against the militants. Nearly a thousand people were killed in suicide attacks last year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7323982.stm

The good news is that Americans are a little more popular than they were. Here's the survey in full: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_04_08_globalview.pdf
Apparantly support for Russia has shot up, so fair dues there. Pakistan, Israel and Iran get the worst results, though what Pakistan did to deserve them escapes me.

If you're interested, I 've dug up an old article by Krauthammer about increasing global support fot the US. It's a howl, I tell ya. It came out around the time of the Australian elections but of course, that's not mentioned.
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/world/2007/1119/1195251431402.html

There were demonstrations in Japan against US bases last week. However the presence of US troops and bases globally is on the up and up. Here are two links, one anti-war and one pro-war.
http://www.nonviolenceworks.com/usmilitaryglobal.pdf
http://benefits.military.com/misc/installations/Browse_WorldMap.jsp
The figures for military spending by Bush versus the rest of the world are worth a look. No wonder youngdan is facing the prospect of food stamps.

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The figures for military spending by Bush versus the rest of the world are worth a look. No wonder youngdan is facing the prospect of food stamps.

Almost makes it worth it.