Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Losing Hearts and Minds: World Public Opinion and post-9/11 US Security Policy

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By Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #37, 14 September 2006.

This memo reviews the change in global public opinion regarding US security policy since 9/11. It finds that opinion has turned strongly against US leadership, to the benfit of both China and Russia. In the Muslim world: fear and anger are bolstering fundamentalist parties. Worldwide, the Iraq war is viewed as a stimulus to terrorism.

Appendix to Pyrrhus on the Potomac: How America's post-9/11 wars have undermined US national security