Truth to Power

When you care enough to do the very least

NEW YORK–Are we the world’s policeman? Or are we an empire? The rest of the world has already made up its mind about us. The president of the Pew Research Center, whose latest poll of foreigners finds they hate the United States more than ever, says: “Obviously, when you get many more people saying that the U.S. [is as much of] a threat to world peace as…Iran, it’s a measure of how much [the war in Iraq] is sapping good will to the United States.”

But we Americans remain deeply divided over American values and intentions, and it’s high time that we got our story straight.</i>

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