Our allies: USA is a greater threat to global stability than Iran or China

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U.S. image slides as world mess deepens
Arnaud De Borchgrace
Thursday 22nd June, 2006 (UPI)


The United States is a greater threat to global stability than Iran or China? Clearly a preposterous suggestion, you would say.

Well, think again because that's how our European allies have sized up the current state of geopolitical play. At least, those were the findings of a Harris poll conducted with the Financial Times, a newspaper regarded by most foreign policy cognoscente as the world's best English-language daily.

The alarming poll was conducted in Britain, France, Italy and Spain, over three days from June 6. Thirty-six percent of some 5,000 polled identified the United States as the greatest threat to world stability. Iran was in second place with 30 percent and China third with 18 percent.

Adding insult to injury, another Pew Foundation survey of Global Attitudes toward the United States, released the same week, showed America's global image still slipping and support for the war on terrorism continuing to decline, even among close U.S. allies like Japan.

"And despite growing concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions, the U.S. presence in Iraq is cited at least as often as Iran -- and in many countries much more often -- as a danger to world peace," said the Pew summary.

outside of the USA. It will never be accepted as true by the merikans.