Britons see US as a vulgar empire builder (Daily Telegraph poll)
Below are the results of a readers’ survey conducted by the Daily Telegraph, Britain’s leading right-wing quality broadsheet. Prima facie the results are alarming as Telegraph readers ought typically be expected to be pro-USA and pro-GOP. They are a deeply conservative lot on the whole. I suppose that God must be on Bush’s side as clearly nobody else is.
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Britons see US as vulgar empire builder
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 03/07/2006)
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US Embassy in London’s response to the survey Britons have never had such a low opinion of the leadership of the United States, a YouGov poll shows. As Americans prepare to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their independence tomorrow, the poll found that only 12 per cent 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. Most Britons see America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class and racism, crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an incompetent hypocrite. American troops are failing either to win “hearts and minds” in Iraq or bring democracy to that country. 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. 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. “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].” |
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