Young Iraqis Overwhelmingly Consider U.S. Their Enemy, Poll Says
MORE THAN 90 PERCENT of young people in Iraq consider the United States to be an enemy of their country, according to a new poll.
After years spent justifying the war as a “liberation” of the Iraqi
people, the survey casts further doubt on the success of that endeavor.
The poll was conducted by Penn Schoen Berland, a public relations and market research firm co-founded by controversial strategist Mark Penn, and was sponsored by a Dubai-based affiliate of Burson Marsteller, once described as “the PR firm for evil.”
Still, the undertaking, as outlined by organizers, sounds ambitious. It
included 250 face-to-face interviews in three Iraqi cities, plus
another 3,250 interviews in 15 other countries throughout the Arab
world, all with men and women ages 18-24 “selected to provide an
accurate reflection of each nation’s geographic and socio-economic
make-up.” It claims an error rate of plus or minus 1.65 percent.
The survey found that overwhelming majorities of young people in
Iraq, Yemen, and the Palestinian Territories consider the U.S. to be an
enemy. In Gulf Arab states, on the other hand, perceptions of the United
States were far more positive. Roughly 85 percent of those living in
the Gulf say that they consider the U.S. to be an ally, with another 66
percent expressing the same view in North Africa.
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