In his 2002 State of the Union speech, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the trio of North Korea, Iran and Iraq constituted an "axis of evil," borrowing the term used to identify the allied enemies during World War II; the axis powers, which consisted of Hitler's Nazi Germany, Mussolini-controlled Italy, and Imperial Japan. Bush said that of this new axis that, "the price of [their] indifference would be catastrophic."
With that, President Bush has already eliminated one member of the axis of evil (Iraq), is bending over backwards to appease another (North Korea), and is dangling a carrot in front of the third to bring them to a negating table over their very real nuclear program (Iran).
Well, move over axis of evil, there is a new axis in town, the axis of the abhorred. Consisting of the two remaining axis of evil members plus, you guessed it, the United States. Bush's words have now come full circle, and the price of Bush's indifference was the world's opinion of the US.
In a recent poll conducted by GlobalScan, BBC World Service surveyed 28,389 people in 27 different countries. The poll asked the interviewees to rate other countries as either a mostly positive influence in the world, or as a mostly negative influence. Three of the four most negatively rated countries are - in order - North Korea (48% negative), United States (51% negative) and Iran (54% negative). For the curious minded, the most negatively viewed country was Israel, at 56%.
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Boy, I sure am glad to be a Democrat! LOL!
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