Public opinion towards the United States in the Muslim world has not improved under President Obama, and it has actually worsened in Pakistan and Jordan since the Bush administration, according to a new Pew study.
Approval ratings for Obama in predominantly Muslim nations is very low: “fewer than three-in-ten express confidence in him in Egypt, Tunisia, Turkey and Jordan,” according to a survey of global opinion. Just just 7% of Pakistanis have a positive view of Obama.
Around the world, disapproval of “how the U.S. uses its power – in particular its military power ” is significant.
“There remains a widespread perception that the U.S. acts unilaterally and does not consider the interests of other countries,” Pew found. “In predominantly Muslim nations, American anti-terrorism efforts are still widely unpopular.”
In nearly all countries – not just predominantly Muslim nations – majorities disapprove of the US drone war. A UN investigator fo the drone war said this month the drone attacks in Pakistan are illegal, and many studies have shown the civilian population bears the brunt of the bombing program.
And “support for Obama has waned significantly in China,” the study found, probably because Obama’s “Asia-Pivot” aims to militarily contain China’s economic rise.
Obama came into office with the expressed intent to improve America’s image in the world, primarily by breaking with the Bush administration militarism. But since Obama has largely continued Bush’s unilateralism, public opinion – particularly those on the receiving end of Obama’s foreign policy – has not improved.
The Administration's foreign policy is wretched and it is based on a cold war paradigm that is more often hot than cold. Obama and most legislators on both sides of the aisle still hink that overthrowing and atomizing every country that is not a U.S. puppet is a necessity, regardless of the rules of international law that we expect everyone else to abide by. As we get economically weaker we will not be able to sustain this imperial war agenda, and sooner or later it will force the collapse of our country. I have a child and am simply unable to accept these policies as the basis of our nation's and her future or support any legislator that advocates or votes for war.
You can call Obama's policies "unilaterist"; I call them Zionist – and of course, the rest of the World hates us for it (except for the sh-tty little country that benefits from it all).
The baton was handed to Obama by Bush and he is running without even a glance over is shoulder. "Nothing has change."
Being of Indian origin, I feel extremely ashamed that only 21 percent of Indians disapprove of drone strikes while 90 percent of Greeks do.
The BJP and Bajrang Dal have achieved their aim of forcing Indians to abanodon the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi and to worship Hitler for his methods, instead.
What a surprise.
It is obvious to any rational person that America's blind subserviance to Isreal and Isrealis rabid policies will only bear putrid fruit.