The University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitude (PIPA) uses methods similar to Retropoll's. Steven Kull, their director, talks of more recent declines in world opinion concerning the U.S. and its foreign policy influences. Jim Lobe of the Inter Press Srervice states about the recent PIPA survey, "[I]n the 18 countries where respondents were asked the same question in each of the past two years, the latest poll found a substantial drop in the percentage who said they viewed U.S. influence as positive, from 40 percent in 2005, to 36 percent last year, to 29 percent in 2007." That should be alarming. Follow the trend of expended global empathy and political capital from the post-9/11 invasions to now...
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