Much has been made recently about efforts to improve American public diplomacy (Washington Times - Winning the war of ideas). This report in today's New York Times (Poll Shows Modest Changes in Levels of Anti-U.S. Mood) notes that, "The anti-Americanism that surged through much of the world over the war in Iraq shows modest signs of abating, an international opinion poll indicates." What steps would you recommend to improve the image of America abroad?
posted by Joel @ 11:00 AM
2 Comments:
Great blog!!!
Good question. Difficult to answer.
One step that would help is to close Guantanamo. The bad press is hurting the US image and US security a lot, because it motivates the terrorist. I don't think Guantanamo has helped US security much... Bin Laden is still on the loose for instance.
Here
http://atlanticreview.org/
is a bit more about the opinion polls, including links to the original survey, which is worth reading. It mentions that the US image improved in Asia due to the generous US aid after the tsunami.
I like your blog a lot.
This is mine:
http://atlanticreview.org/
Atlantic Review, thank you for your comment. Good point about U.S. aid to Asia, I agree we do a lot of good that generates goodwill abroad, but we also do things that undermine our own efforts, we are our own worst enemy. I think we are learning to try to promote the good things we do more, but we really have to do more to accept responsibility for our failures and address them in an honest manner. I think people respect that more than excuses.
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