Rounding up a few hundred terrorist will simply mean a few hundred recruits will take their place unless we deal with the underlying tacit support terrorists have among Muslims and others who feel wronged by U.S. policy. Once such support dries up, it will be more difficult for terrorists to operate. <\/p>\n
We\u2019re moving in the wrong direction, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. The image of the U.S. has never been worse, the study says. “This poll says to me the discontent with America is a long-term problem that U.S. leaders have to confront,” said<\/a> poll director Andrew Kohut. “We’ve never seen ratings as low as this for America.” <\/p>\n And Bush is largely the problem. The poll found favorable views of Bush among only 14 percent of Germans, 15 percent of the French, 28 percent of Russians and 7 percent of Pakistanis. Brits were a little more favorable, but 39 percent isn\u2019t overwhelming support. Back in 1991, for example, 75 percent of Germans and 72 percent of Russians viewed Bush\u2019s father, President George H.W. Bush, favorably.<\/p>\n The Washington Post reports:<\/p>\n Ominously, the poll showed some increased support in Muslim countries for suicide bombings and other forms of violence; 82 percent of Jordanians, 40 percent of Moroccans, 41 percent of Pakistanis and 15 percent of Turks said such violence could be justified. Majorities in Pakistan and Jordan had favorable views of Osama bin Laden, while majorities in Jordan and Morocco said attacks against Americans and Westerners in Iraq are justified.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n \nUntil we address the legitimate concerns of Muslims worldwide \u2013 the Middle East conflict and our support for repressible regimes, chief among them \u2013 we\u2019ll continue down this spiral of deadly attacks against which even the mightiest military forces cannot protect us.<\/p>\n We can\u2019t protect ourselves from enemies who are willing to kill themselves to kill us. Anyone who tells us we can is lying. I wonder who?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rounding up a few hundred terrorist will simply mean a few hundred recruits will take their place unless we deal with the underlying tacit support terrorists have among Muslims and others who feel wronged by U.S. policy. Once such support dries up, it will be more difficult for terrorists to operate. We\u2019re moving in the… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}