Pakistani Polls Reflect Grim Views of U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/world/asia/22pew.html?_r=1&ref=asia

Most Pakistanis disapprove of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden and think it will have harmful effects on relations between Pakistan and the United States, according to a recent survey conducted by the Pew Research Center. But overwhelmingly negative attitudes toward the United States did not change from the month before the raid to two weeks after, remaining at the worst levels measured in eight years.

Pew surveyed Pakistan as part of its Global Attitudes Project in April, and conducted a second poll following the May 2 raid on Bin Laden’s compound in the city of Abbottabad, south of Islamabad. Both polls were predominately urban and, for security reasons, excluded about 15 percent of the population living in areas of instability.

Pakistanis’ views of Bin Laden had become increasingly negative in recent years. In a 2005 Pew poll, 51 percent said they had confidence that Bin Laden would do the right thing in world affairs; in April only 21 percent had such trust.

But almost two-thirds of those surveyed disapproved of the American raid and more than half considered his death to be a negative development. Ten percent of those surveyed in May approved of the American military operation that killed Bin Laden and 55 percent said it is a “bad thing that Bin Laden is dead.”

generously send them for their own good. Not to mention killing their citizens without trial.

How could they possibly not like us?

their internal affairs in unwelcome ways. And no, I don't mean OBL - I mean meddling in ways that ANY sovereign state would object to.

But somehow, reich-wingers seem to feel that this should all just be water under the bridge. Because they say so. :crazy:

Meanwhile, I think every Pakistani person I know likes the popular concept of "America" and also considers typical Americans to be friendly and very likeable.