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In reply to the discussion: While the President dances, innocents mourn their dead, dead at the President's hand. [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)From the 911 Commission report of 2003.
"The United States is heavily engaged in the Muslim world and will be for many years to come. This American engagement is resented. Polls in 2002 found that among America's friends, like Egypt-the recipient of more U.S. aid for the past 20 years than any other Muslim country-only 15 percent of the population had a favorable opinion of the United States. In Saudi Arabia the number was 12 percent. And two-thirds of those surveyed in 2003 in countries from Indonesia to Turkey (a NATO ally) were very or somewhat fearful that the United States may attack them.23
Support for the United States has plummeted. Polls taken in Islamic countries after 9/11 suggested that many or most people thought the United States was doing the right thing in its fight against terrorism; few people saw popular support for al Qaeda; half of those surveyed said that ordinary people had a favorable view of the United States. By 2003, polls showed that "the bottom has fallen out of support for America in most of the Muslim world. Negative views of the U.S. among Muslims, which had been largely limited to countries in the Middle East, have spread.. . . Since last summer, favorable ratings for the U.S. have fallen from 61% to 15% in Indonesia and from 71% to 38% among Muslims in Nigeria."
http://www.9-11commission.gov/report/911Report_Ch12.htm
And that is from over eight years ago, well before drones and horror of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan took hold. Since then, things have gotten much worse.
As far as posting it on the evening of inaugural day, sorry to disturb your beautiful mind. How much more disturbed are the minds of relatives of those innocent victims, the people who have to bury their mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters, and who, once their mourning is done, will turn their rage and anger against us.