Anti-Americanism: America must regain its soft power
Anti-Americanism had been rising around the world even before the pictures of abuse in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison. Polls showed that attitudes toward the United States fell sharply in Europe last year plummeted in the Islamic world, from Morocco to Indonesia. The shocking photos added fuel to the fire. As a pro-American businessperson told me recently in Poland, many of us who supported the United States now feel like we have been “punched in the stomach.”
(New York Times, May 19, 2004)
Source: The New York Times
