International Herald Tribune: How the World Sees the U.S. and Sept. 11

[Doug Millison]

http://www.iht.com/articles/42521.html

"]...] The poll of 275 opinion leaders, conducted by the International
Herald Tribune and the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press,
reveals disagreements between America and other countries on whether U.S.
policies played a significant role in fueling terrorists' anger against the
United States.
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Asked if many or most ordinary people consider U.S. policies to be "a major
cause" of the Sept. 11 attacks, fewer than 1 in 5 respondents from America
said they do. But in the rest of the world, nearly 3 out of 5 agreed that
they would.
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The survey also highlights anew a large gap between the way Americans
believe they are seen abroad and the way others see the United States.
While not a single American respondent believed the U.S. attacks on
Afghanistan would be widely considered as an overreaction, about 4 in 10
non-Americans saw them as such, including 6 in 10 in Islamic countries.
[...]"