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Article: Foreign policy as economic drag.(ECONOMIC OBSERVER)(anti-American sentiment leads to poor sales abroad for U.S. companies)(Column)
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- USA TODAY
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- May 1, 2005
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AT AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of parliamentarians in Strasbourg, France, with delegations from some 81 countries, and subsequently at the European Parliament in Brussels, I was invited to talk about population, food, water, climate change, and energy, yet the question-and-answer sessions, as well as individual conversations, invariably turned to U.S. foreign policy.
Elected representatives from other countries not only are bewildered by an American foreign policy that they cannot fathom, but increasingly angered. The America they now see is not the one they once knew. In fact, anti-American sentiment seems to be spreading throughout the world. The Pew Global ...