Disturbing

A new pew research poll that I read in today's paper bothered me. The question posed was what is your view of the United States. Now at the bottom of the list there were no surprises. The countries you would expect Turkey, Palestinian Terr., Pakistan, Jordan , and Egypt have a bad impression of the U.S.

The part I found disturbing was the top of this poll the country with the highest opinion of the U.S. was Kenya. Not surprising in that they feel their native son of sorts is president. Still not disturbed,the U.S. was polled and we have a lower opinion of ourselves than the Kenyans.

Here's a link to the poll The poll shows this isn't really a new trend in fact are own opinion of the U.S. has risen. One thing in reading the online poll that I found odd was that when questioning certain international policies other countries liked what we are doing better than we do.

Foreign policy should benefit us not other countries, I think Ricky Nelson said it best" You can't please everyone so you got to please yourself.