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...significantly lower now than it was only three months after 9/11, when 73% were in favor. The closer we get to war, the more questions Americans seem to have about it. And one of those questions is whether or not, as Bush argues, the war would make us safer. The poll makes it clear that the President has yet to convince a nation living under an orange alert that waging war would better protect Americans from terrorism. Quite the opposite: 56% said sending U.S. military troops into Iraq would increase the number of al-Qaeda attacks...
...mouth, why I feel the way I do about this." And then Edwards--Gephardt and Lieberman do almost exactly the same--said Saddam is a real threat who needs to be disarmed, but quickly moved on to the President's "cowboy mentality" and diplomatic depredations: "Your family is safer in a world where people look up to America than in a world where we are hated." At this, an elderly woman named Jane Majors scribbled a sign with Magic Marker and held it above her head: BUT WAR WILL MAKE THEM HATE US MORE...
...Egypt since terrorists gunned down 58 foreign tourists outside Luxor in 1997. And the 9/11 attacks contributed to an additional 34% decline in U.S. visitors, to 117,396 in 2002. But since 1997, Egypt hasn't seen a terrorist attack on foreigners, who it can be argued have been safer there than in New York City. European tourists have begun to return to Egypt, but they don't use luxury hotels and river tours to the extent that Americans do. "And when Americans dine," says Atef Goubran, an executive with Oberoi Hotels & Resorts, "they drink wine and cognac...
...take over, the reasoning goes, we might make a big mess—we could provoke worldwide anti-American sentiment, slaughter Iraqi civilians and impose some unspecified form of American military rule on the country. But it’ll be our mess, which for us, somehow, appears safer. And, to an American troop on the ground in Iraq, once the US is in control, Bush (and the rest of us) can stop caring...
...Starry Sky's main competitor, AOL Time Warner-owned CETV, plays safer. Instead of trying to create lots of new programming for China, it relies on imported favorites, such as Tom and Jerry cartoons, a British cooking program and dubbed series from Korea and Taiwan. AOL also plans to expose the Chinese to American politics?Hollywood-style?by broadcasting the Emmy Award-winning White House drama The West Wing to its Guangdong audience. "We're not hemming ourselves in by copying Western formats," says Steve Marcopoto, president of Turner International Asia-Pacific...