Although you may not like what you get.

TigerHawk does an excellent piece on the Pew International Survey results that Gleen touted and I posted on here.

Key paragraph:

The Pew Center report curiously avoids this point, but to me it is important: The idea that the United States should “deal with” the world’s most pressing problems (at least if the U.N. does not) is particularly popular in Western Europe, the one part of the world wealthy and potentially powerful enough to “deal with” most global problems as or more effectively as the United States (recognizing that it would have to make different choices about military spending to “deal with” some of these problems). The survey encompassed six wealthy countries in Western Europe — Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden. A larger percentage of surveyed public opinion in each of these six countries believed that the United States should deal with the greatest problems facing the world than believed that their own countries should (see the table for Q.10 on page 87). Western Europe was the only region surveyed in which pluralities in every country believed that the United States had a greater responsibility than their own government to solve the most pressing problems in the world. In Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa there were at least some surveyed countries in which more of the public held their own government responsible for dealing with the most pressing problem than the United States.

In fact, the gist of the analysis was anticipated by JD’s comment:

I wonder about how international opinion would be effected should these people no longer live under the umbrella of security provided by the US, or without our international and economic aid.

Oh, and look:

AT least one of the suspects being quizzed over the alleged plot to set off car bombs in Britain was in recent contact with Al-Qaeda in Iraq, senior security officials said yesterday.

Scotland Yard’s Counter Terrorism Command SO15 is understood to have uncovered evidence that in the months leading up to the attacks one or more of the suspects communicated by telephone or e-mail with terrorist leaders in Iraq.

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The report said the commander “stressed the need to take care to ensure the attack was successful and on a large scale”. It was aimed “ideally” to take place before Blair stepped down. It said JTAC, which is based at MI5’s London headquarters, was “aware that AQI [Al-Qaeda in Iraq] . . . networks are active in the UK”.

But, you know: Balderdash! Poppycock! Pish-posh!