March 1, 2006

IT WOULD BE UNANIMOUS IF YOU TOOK UP CRICKET

Good news for Bush! Indians are gung-ho on US (Times of India, March 1st, 2006)

While United States favourability ratings have plunged in many countries, Indians are significantly more positive about the US now than they were in the summer of 2002, a new opinion poll has said.

The 2005 Pew Global Attitudes survey found that 71 per cent of Indians have a favourable view of the United States and 54 per cent admire President Bush in handling world affairs.

What mostly attracts Indians is that America remains a land of opportunity despite its booming economy today. Asked where they would recommend that a young person move in order to lead a good life, a 38 per cent plurality of Indians choose the United States.

No time to relax though. The enemies of civilization are on the case.

Posted by Peter Burnet at March 1, 2006 6:18 PM
Comments

Don't worry, Bush is working on the cricket thing as we speak.

Posted by: John Thacker at March 1, 2006 6:27 PM

Modo:

'I am not a geopolitical expert'

question:

then why do write about geopolitical topics for the NY Times?

Posted by: JonofAtlanta at March 1, 2006 8:12 PM

It's the NY Times strategy. Take a writer who succeeds at writing about something else (MoDo - the city, Frank Rich - the theater, John Tierney - also the city and economics), and make them an op-ed columnist. Occasionally this works. Other times you feel as though Ellsworth Toohey is running things.

Posted by: John Thacker at March 1, 2006 10:16 PM

"Indians are gung-ho on the US"

Be careful here. It might be an old Apache trick.

Posted by: AllenS at March 2, 2006 7:10 AM

Remember how they fooled the British at Fort Michilimackinac!

Posted by: Dave W at March 2, 2006 7:52 AM

Sooner have Indians than Muslims immigrating.

Posted by: Ptah at March 2, 2006 8:15 AM

Did anyone else find the sentence "America remains a land of opportunity despite its booming economy" confusing also?

Posted by: Mikey at March 2, 2006 8:21 AM

Mikey, you're right. The sentence would have been clearer if it had read, ... despite its booming economy and its plummeting unemployment.

Posted by: erp at March 2, 2006 9:10 AM

I think the sentence means to imply that things haven't topped out, that despite all of the previous growth, there's still time to get in on the boom.

Posted by: Noam Chomsky at March 2, 2006 2:42 PM
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