Jim Lobe
OneWorld US
Tue., Sep. 28, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C.- Despite his standing in the polls, U.S. President George W. Bush's post-9/11 foreign policy views are broadly rejected by both the public and by the elite, according to a major new survey released Tuesday by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR).
The survey, "Global Views 2004: American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy,' found that 76 percent of the general public reject the notion that Washington should play the role of world policeman and 80 percent believe that the U.S. is currently playing that role "more than it should be."
Asked what is the more important lessons from the 9/11 attacks, 73 percent of the public and 84 percent of the experts said, 73 percent of the public said "the U.S. needs to work more closely with other countries to fight terrorism," as opposed to 23 percent who said it "needs to act on its own more..." For the elite group that was surveyed separately, the margin in favor of the first choice was even larger: 84 percent, as opposed to only nine percent that called for more unilateral action.
Indeed, the survey, which was conducted in July, shows that Americans - both the public and recognized leaders -- much prefer multilateral solutions to foreign-policy problems to the more-unilateral approach that has dominated the Bush administration.
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