Bush is a Disaster for Foreign Relations

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This was published in the Stanford Daily by Philip Zimbardo, the whole article is at http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=15071&repository=0001_article

Having completed a lecture tour in New Zealand, Poland, Italy and Sicily, I wanted to share with Stanford students a view that was prevalent among all the students, colleagues and ordinary town folks who attended my talks or I met in cafes and restaurants.
In large cities and small towns, the consensus was that they feared President George W. Bush more than any terrorists because of the power he wields and the apparent disdain of his administration for true alliances overseas. They are focused on the Tuesday election with greater fervor than on any past American election for its potential global consequences.

Those informal opinions of these “persons in the streets and in the seats” conforms with recent polls by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan opinion research organization, and with large scale surveys by the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

They show that 87 percent of Muslims do not approve of President Bush; more than 70 percent of people in Muslim countries worry about a military threat from the United States; and the majority of them believe that Iraq is worse off now than before the toppling of Saddam Hussein.

More at http://daily.stanford.edu/tempo?page=content&id=15071&repository=0001_article