Global opinion: World is not a safer place

Christian Science Monitor

09/13/04

Three years after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11, 2001, a look over the weekend at global opinion on the war on terror shows that most of the world considers it a largely unsuccessful effort. Even within countries whose governments are allied with the US in the war on terror, and who have sent troops to Iraq, there is a sense that US policies have not made the world a safer place. Writing in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, Washington correspondent Paul McGeough says that the there is much 'confusion and sadness' on the third anniversary of 9/11, and if you asked Western leaders how the war on terror was going, most would say 'they don't know.' McGeough argues that the administration of US President George W. Bush has invited 'double blowback from the litany of policy decisions' that have allowed the war in Iraq to 'smother the war on terror...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp