AUDREY WOODS, Associated Press Writer, Wednesday, June 18, 2003:
PDT LONDON (AP) — A sampling of public opinion in 11 nations finds
many see the United States as an arrogant superpower that poses a
greater danger to world peace than North Korea.
President Bush failed to impress 58 percent of those questioned by
pollsters for a British Broadcasting Corp. broadcast Tuesday night.
They said they had a fairly unfavorable or very unfavorable view of
the American president. If the American respondents were removed from
the sample, the number rose to 60 percent.
The poll questioned 11,000 people in May and June in 11 nations:
Australia, Brazil, Britain, Canada, France, Indonesia, Israel,
Jordan, Russia, South Korea and the United States. The poll was
conducted by pollsters including ICM in Britain and IPSOS Reid in the
United States. The BBC did not estimate a margin of error.
Not all the news was bad for the United States.
Even though 67 percent said they wouldn't want their countries to
copy U.S. economic policies, 67 percent would aspire to U.S. gains in
science and technology, and 56 percent to the opportunities for
advancement available to people in the United States. Forty percent
aspired to U.S. freedom of expression.
But the way the United States wields its power worried many of those
questioned for the program, "What the World Thinks of America."
Only 25 percent — excluding Americans — said U.S. military might
was making the world a safer place.
Forty-one percent agreed with Prime Minister Tony Blair's opinion
that the United States is a force for good in the world, and 55
disagreed.
Sixty-five percent overall — and a majority in every country,
including the United States — said America is arrogant. Forty-s…
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