US News & World Report "Poll: Arabs see U.S. as a Threat"

In other news, baby sheep are called lambs.

a threat to STABILITY in the region?

There's stability in the region to threaten?

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About 82 percent of survey participants in 12 Arab countries said they believed the U.S. poses a threat to stability in the region

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This is true. We are a massive threat to stability in that region, considering that we have purposely destabilized multiple countries in the ME since the '70s.

That isn't a knock to GN's position. It actually affirms it.

Our intervention is a threat to ME stability.

Be higher if they'd poll Muslims.

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Arabs

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Anybody with a hair more empathy than a sociopath probably won't be all that outraged by this. Hell most of you at least pretend to see our government as a threat.

I don't care. I hope that they do.

A lot of other interesting stuff was in the underlying poll: LINK.

(These polls were taken in 2016, by the way, so this has very little to do with Trump, for what it's worth.)

Section 7 on opinions of the 2011 Arab Spring on pp. 12-13 is of note.

Positive vs. negative opinion by year
2012-13, 61% vs. 22%
2014, 45% vs. 42%
2015, 34% vs. 59%
2016, 41% vs. 50%

If you look at the breakdown of the 12 Arab countries on their 2016 opinions, you'll see that the most negative were Jordan & Lebanon, which were dealing with the awful spillover effects of sheltering refugee populations.

For the other 10 countries, all were more positive than negative. (EDIT: Sorry. It's 9/10, as I missed Algeria. I blame the French influence and the stirring poetry of Dominique de Villepin.)

(2ND EDIT: That 78% positive to 19% negative rating for Egypt is especially interesting.)

Also interesting were the polls on pg. 10, including the 53% of respondents who agreed with the statement, "It would be better for my home country if religion were separated from politics."