Keep in mind that right after 9-11 world opinion was in favor of the US, and that, like the surplus, it was squandered.

Rumsfeld: U.S. losing war for hearts and minds. Secretary says U.S. must be more aggressive, innovative in PR war.

NEW YORK - "Al-Qaida and other Islamic extremist groups have poisoned the Muslim public’s view of the United States through deft use of the Internet and other modern communications methods that the American government has failed to master, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Friday.

"In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Rumsfeld sounded a theme he frequently raises as a key to eventually winning the global war on terrorism: countering anti-Western messages from Islamic extremists."

Only a neocon can be that divorced from reality. That's kinda awesome.

Arf