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A negative effect on US Alliances?

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by oz_media

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I don't want this discussion to turn into anothyer turf war and don't want to beat a dead horse but I watched the end of CBC's Newsworld last night and it raised a few interesting points.
In brief, the discussion was whether the US war efforts havetainted the minds of citizens by making them feel negatively about the US Allies and vice versa.

Apparently, 89% of Americans feel that the war efforts have benefited all the other allied countries, especially Germany, France and Canada.
51% of the rest of the world feels that Americans are simply being arrogant and aren't helping anyone but themselves.

86% of the American public (before the wars) felt that Canada was a great country and had no problems with rance. Whereas, since th wars, only 41% feel that Canada is an Alliance and even less for France.

I only had the top of my smoke pack to jot a few quick notes so I welcome anyone who saw the report that has info to add or correct my statements.

Another survey has shown that 91% of Americans feel that people in other countries would rather live in the USA and are jealous of their superiority, whereas only 14% of people surveyed in other countries would want to live in the USA.

Over 56% of Americans have become angry at Canada for its reluctance to join the war, 81% hated France now, whereas they were considered fine before.

72% of people in other coutries feel Americans are arrogant and see themselves as righteous "World police". 92% of Americans feel that the rest of the world should be thankful for their presence.

These are not my opinions of survey results, nor were they ONLY Canadian surveys, most of the interviews and surveys were conducted in the USA, with the exception of stats form the rest of the world.

How do you feel this stacks up with your personal opinions?

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by admin

>>I don't want this discussion to turn into anothyer turf war

c'mon OZ! You love mixing it up a bit I'd say!
Not that there's anything wrong with that, mind you :>

>>don't want to beat a dead horse but

I love disclaimers! Everytime someone says: " I don't want to tell you how to raise your kid, but..." I hang on their every word waiting in anticipation for them to do the very thing which they do not want to do! :)

Anyway, no worries! It's all good. TR has in fact defeated the old system where a topic could stay on almost forever and be revived at the drop of the hat, and yet, for instance, although you'll never see: "Brink" (thank you Duck!) on the hotlist now.... well, it's still running hotter than the list! :>

http://tinyurl.com/en6m

So, no qualifiers needed mate! Call it like you see it and let the chips fall where they may!

:)

by merchantbanker

I've lived in Australia, NZ,GB, Belgium and the USA (where I am now) and I've never seen such biased and lying media anywhere as it is here.

American people at home are really genuine, friendly and just plain nice, and I really like them, but they are lied too so much what chance have they got ? My wife is American and she was just shocked when we lived in Europe and discovered just what she didn't know and was never told in the US.

It's a pity really.

SW.

PS .. are you going forthe top poster title ! Man you get everywhere !

by oz_media

"PS .. are you going for the top poster title ! Man you get everywhere ! "

Since one band is finished in the studio and taking time off, another is on tour (yay tour management) and others justs gigging around England there's not much going on for me here.

I remote manage a Netware network for a telecom interconnect company, kinda like being the Maytag man, it just works and keeps working.

So TR, here i am. The reason for the disclaimers is because I've been tegged as an instigator. I wouldn't have even started this but for a program that referenced the issue shortly after similar discussions were started here.
Thanks tho.

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