December 5, 2005
SURVEY NEWS YOU CAN USE
Arabs in survey prefer France over United States (David R. Sands, Washington Times, 12/03/2005)
Arabs across the Middle East remain deeply skeptical of U.S. motives and policies in Iraq, and more than one in five would prefer to see France replace the United States as the world's only superpower, according to a major new survey released yesterday.
In other cutting-edge survey research, investigators have discovered that children prefer Cookie Crisp cereal to shredded wheat.
Posted by kevin_whited at December 5, 2005 9:44 AMMore than one in five
Which means, surely, less than 1 in four. The number of Middle-Eastern arabs who wish France replaced the US is therefore between 20-25%; the fact that nearly 80% don't indicates that either our PR is much better than I thought, or that Arabs are deeply cynical of the French.
Posted by: Mike Earl at December 5, 2005 10:14 AMOTOH, we can guess that nearly 3 in 4 US journalists would rather see Jacques Chirac or Dominique de Villepin as US President than George Bush. Will that 'story' ever get published? Nah.
Posted by: ratbert at December 5, 2005 10:21 AMThis is the most hilarious thing we've seen since that one about the guy and the horse in Washington State.
One may ask what percentaqe of Nazis preferred Petain to Roosevelt.
Posted by: Lou Gots at December 5, 2005 10:27 AMso they 'would prefer to see France replace the United States as the world's only superpower..'
Yeah, and I would like it if diamonds came out of my butt.
Posted by: JonofAtlanta at December 5, 2005 10:35 AMI prefer they go to France as well.
Posted by: Carter at December 5, 2005 2:40 PMask the arabs in france, you know, the ones that show how happy they are by rioting for 3 weeks straight.
Posted by: zogby cheats at December 5, 2005 5:59 PMI wasn't aware that superpower status was up to a vote. I always thought that superpower states were those that, you know, actually HAD power and a military strong enough to project it.
Posted by: ray at December 5, 2005 6:56 PM