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Telegraph.co.uk(7月3日)が、YouGov世論調査の結果を次のように報じている。
英国人はアメリカを低俗な帝国主義国とみなし、アメリカの指導性についてかつてないほど低い評価を下している。
アメリカは230回目の独立記念日を明日迎える準備をしているが、アメリカが国際舞台で賢明な行動をとれるとするイギリス人は僅かに17%、1975年ベトナム戦争の痛手の残るホワイトハウスへの信頼に比べても半分の数字だ。
イギリス人はほとんどがアメリカを残忍で低俗、かつ傲慢な国、階級と人種差別で引き裂かれ、犯罪まみれで、お金にとりつかれ、無能な偽善者に率いられた国とみなしている。
アメリカ軍はイラクで人心を得ることも民主主義をもたらすこともできないでいる。
意見を提供したうち2/3以上がアメリカは本質的に世界支配をめざす帝国主義強国だと述べた。さらに見解を持つ者のうち81%が、ジョージ W ブッシュ大統領はアメリカの利己心追求の隠れ蓑として偽善的に民主主義を擁護していると述べた。
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以下 Telegraph.co.uk ―7月3日― http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=EMVIUOBNCQ12PQFIQMFCFFOAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2006/07/03/nyank03.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/03/ixuknews.html から転載。
Britons see US as vulgar empire builder
By Ben Fenton
(Filed: 03/07/2006)
Britons have never had such a low opinion of the leadership of the United States, a YouGov poll shows.
As Americans prepare to celebrate the 230th anniversary of their independence tomorrow, the poll found that only 12 per cent of Britons trust them to act wisely on the global stage. This is half the number who had faith in the Vietnam-scarred White House of 1975.
Most Britons see America as a cruel, vulgar, arrogant society, riven by class and racism, crime-ridden, obsessed with money and led by an incompetent hypocrite.
American troops are failing either to win "hearts and minds" in Iraq or bring democracy to that country.
More than two-thirds who offered an opinion said America is essentially an imperial power seeking world domination. And 81 per cent of those who took a view said President George W Bush hypocritically championed democracy as a cover for the pursuit of American self-interests.
A spokesman for the American embassy said that the poll's findings were contradicted by its own surveys.
"We question the judgment of anyone who asserts the world would be a better place with Saddam still terrorizing his own nation and threatening people well beyond Iraq's borders.
"With respect to the poll's assertions about American society, we bear some of the blame for not successfully communicating America's extraordinary dynamism.
"But frankly, so do you [the British press]."