Wednesday, June 04, 2003

Pew Poll Shows U.S. Isolation: In War's Wake, Hostility and Mistrust
'The poll forcefully supported the finding of an earlier survey that a U.S. war with Iraq would fuel anti-American sentiment. As could be expected, this feeling is strongest in the Muslim world, where negative attitudes toward the United States have soared since the war on Iraq began March 20 with a wave of American air attacks over Baghdad... Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center, said he had been surprised by the extent to which "the bottom has fallen out" in the Muslim world... "The figures confirm that the Iraq crisis has precipitated a profound crisis in trans-Atlantic relations, which I think had been building for some time," ... One casualty of the increased strains between America and Europe is NATO.'

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