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Thursday, June 05, 2014

'They love me'!

The Hill reports that Arabs in Arab countries are 'warming' to President Obama.
Since 2011, opinions of Obama’s policies have grown exponentially in Egypt (from 3 percent to 34 percent), in Jordan (from 3 percent to 25 percent) and in the UAE (from 8 percent to 38 percent).
Views of Obama in Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Lebanon have also increased between 7 and 24 percentage points.

Saudis, Emiratis and Egyptians gave the administration the highest scores, but ratings in each country remain well below 50 percent.  
Those surveyed said the Obama administration has been the most effective in ending the U.S. presence in Iraq, after troops pulled out in 2011, and working to end Iran’s nuclear program.
The administration has been the least effective in improving relations with the Muslim world and handling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Arab Spring, according to the poll.
Talk about framing the questions to get the results you want in a poll. Obama has been most effective in ending US presence in Iraq because he just ended it and let the consequences be damned. He's been totally ineffective at ending Iran's nuclear program (look at the news from Geneva), but is still 'effective' because US 'intelligence agencies' tied Bush's hands from trying in 2007. None of this actually makes Obama popular. 
Strong majorities in each country support U.S. policies to spur a negotiated solution to the civil war in Syria, and favor the U.S. providing more assistance to its refugees. Majorities in all countries oppose any form of U.S. military engagement in Syria.
Most of the countries strongly support U.S.-led negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program, but they have little confidence the talks will succeed. 
On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, strong majorities in every Arab country surveyed said they aren’t confident the U.S. has been even-handed in its approach to negotiating peace. More than half of Palestinians, for instance, felt that way.
What could go wrong?

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1 Comments:

At 5:03 AM, Blogger Sunlight said...

What's not to like, from their view? Obama/Clinton, etc. have joined their side.

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Allen West
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Dear Mr. President, may I enlighten you as to the definition of war, and could you also explain how releasing enemy leadership during a time of war is not aiding and abetting? http://allenbwest.com/2014/06/dear-mr-president-may-enlighten-definition-war/

 

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