"Is the Bush administration winning or losing what it calls the global war on terror?
That is a question more for military analysts and security experts.
But if the findings of a new opinion poll for the BBC are anything to go by, it certainly seems to be losing the battle for global public opinion.
The poll was carried out by the international opinion research firm GlobeScan, together with the Programme On International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland (Pipa) in the US.
"Though the Bush administration has framed the intervention in Iraq as a means of fighting terrorism, all around the world - including in the US - most people view it as having increased the likelihood of terrorist attacks," Pipa director Steven Kull notes.
"The near-unanimity of this assessment among countries is remarkable in global public opinion polling."
All the huffing and puffing of the politicians about the positives that would come out of the attack on Iraq seem to have come to nought - especially how the "war on terrorists" would be won! Read the full BBC article here - and reflect on what the fall-out, on so many levels, has been since the Iraq War started just over 2 years ago.
That is a question more for military analysts and security experts.
But if the findings of a new opinion poll for the BBC are anything to go by, it certainly seems to be losing the battle for global public opinion.
The poll was carried out by the international opinion research firm GlobeScan, together with the Programme On International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland (Pipa) in the US.
"Though the Bush administration has framed the intervention in Iraq as a means of fighting terrorism, all around the world - including in the US - most people view it as having increased the likelihood of terrorist attacks," Pipa director Steven Kull notes.
"The near-unanimity of this assessment among countries is remarkable in global public opinion polling."
All the huffing and puffing of the politicians about the positives that would come out of the attack on Iraq seem to have come to nought - especially how the "war on terrorists" would be won! Read the full BBC article here - and reflect on what the fall-out, on so many levels, has been since the Iraq War started just over 2 years ago.
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