This opinion piece by Michael Barone refers to the Pew Global Attitudes Project.
But the most important changes occurring -- not just in Iraq, but across the Muslim world -- are changes in people's minds. These are harder, but not impossible, to measure.You can read the research in detail here.
George W. Bush has proclaimed that we are working to build democracy in Iraq not just for Iraqis, but in order to advance freedom and defeat fanatical Islamist terrorism around the world. Now comes the Pew Global Attitudes Project's recent survey of opinion in six Muslim countries to tell us that progress is being made in achieving that goal.
Minds are being changed, and in the right direction.
http://pewglobal.org/
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Amazing just how well the MSM has ignored this bit of news. Usually they're all about these polls. But then, it doesn't support their point of view, so I guess I can see why they ignored it.
I did a quick google search and found only references to the poll in lower teir news agencies and some international papers. I'd say that is telling.
Max Boot also remarked on this:
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The public opinion poll was conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, hardly a bastion of neocon zealotry. (It's co-chaired by Madeleine Albright.) Over the last three years, Pew surveys have charted surging anti-Americanism in response to the invasion of Iraq and other actions of the Bush administration. But its most recent poll — conducted in May, with 17,000 respondents in 17 countries — also found evidence that widespread antipathy is abating.
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http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot27jul27,0,1437541.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions
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