Hvem behøver fjender når man har sådanne ‘venner’?

LONDON (AFP) – People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll.

The YouGov poll found that 77 percent of respondents disagreed with the statement that the US is “a beacon of hope for the world”.

As Americans prepared to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their independence on Tuesday, the poll found that only 12 percent of Britons trust them to act wisely on the global stage. This is half the number who had faith in the Vietnam-scarred White House of 1975.

A massive 83 percent of those questioned said that the United States doesn’t care what the rest of the world thinks. With much of the worst criticism aimed at the US adminstration, the poll showed that 70 percent of Britons like Americans a lot or a little.

US President George W. Bush fared significantly worse, with just one percent rating him a “great leader” against 77 percent who deemed him a “pretty poor” or “terrible” leader.

More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.

US policy in Iraq was similarly derided, with only 24 percent saying they felt that the US military action there was helping to bring democracy to the country.

A spokesman for the American embassy said that the poll’s findings were contradicted by its own surveys. “We question the judgment of anyone who asserts the world would be a better place with Saddam still terrorizing his own nation and threatening people well beyond Iraq’s borders,” the paper quoted the unnamed spokesman as saying. “With respect to the poll’s assertions about American society, we bear some of the blame for not successfully communicating America’s extraordinary dynamism. “But frankly, so do you (the British press).”

In answer to other questions, a majority of the Britons questions described Americans as uncaring, divided by class, awash in violent crime, vulgar, preoccupied with money, ignorant of the outside world, racially divided, uncultured and in the most overwhelming result (90 percent of respondents) dominated by big business.

Yahoo News

Det ser ud til, at mediernes hjernevask af europæerne virker efter hensigten.

4 Kommentarer

  1. Ja det er en propaganda sejr som må gøre venstrefløjen våde i bukserne.
    Selv om muren forlængst er faldet og de ikke har noget alternativ kan de da stadig håbe at den gamle fjende, kombinationen af demokrati og kapitalisme, eksemplificeret af USA, kan falde fra hinanden.
    Bortset fra det kan de jo ikke forestille sig USA som andet en imperialistisk, grådigt, aggressivt og alt andet de har fået tudet ørene fulde med.

    Tja det går vel efter hånden bare på automatpilot i disse tider hvor værdier helst er noget så overfladisk som almuens, inklusive den akademiske almues tanker.

  2. Næsten lige så stor en procentdel af den amerikanske befolkning synes det samme som den engelske befolkning.
    De er nok også blevet hjernevasket af de frygtelige venstreorienterede amerikanske medier…
    Haha…irony off…

  3. Hvilke er spørgsmålene er du helt præcist uenig med englænderne i?

    At Bush er en stor leder? At USA handler klogt udenrigspolitisk? At USA har bragt demoktrati til Irak?

    Eller de andre?

    Desuden så har jeg svært ved at se “mediernes hjernevask” imod USA. Selvfølgelig er der USA-kritik i medierne (det skulle der da helst også være), men det bliver da så rigeligt opvejet af at 50% af alle de programmer, der bliver sendt i dansk tv, for fanden da er amerikanske…

    Måske er der ikke tale om en USA-kritisk, muslimsk inspireret konspiration, men derimod om, at USA virkerlig HAR kvajet sig på det seneste. Og ikke mindst Bush – Great leader min røv. Det er der da vist også mange amerikanere,der er enige i.

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