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Sunday, January 23, 2005
Opinions on Iraq
The BBC is running an online opinion poll on the Iraqi elections. It's quick - just seven questions and a few pieces of personal information (nothing intrusive - and no email address required). The results are broken-down by language, sex, age, and region to give you an idea of what the world is thinking.
I was a little surprised to learn that, by and large, the most optimistic of those polled live in the Middle East (with Latin America being the most vehemently opposed to the war). So the same people who are being bombed and tortured by those greedy imperialist Americans are the only people who don't seem to have a problem with it. Fancy that!
The most revealing question: "Will democracy prevail in Iraq and spread to the other regions in the Middle East?" Note that those polled in the Middle East are the only ones who are even remotely confident of democracy taking root in Iraq (64%) and, to a lesser extent, the entire region (50%). What does that tell you about how the world regards Arabs and their ability to live in societies of peace and liberty?
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