What the World Really Wants

摘要

The bush administration describes spreading democ-racy as the lodestar of its foreign policy. It speaks about democracy constantly and has expanded funding for programs associated with it The administration sees itself as giving voice to the hundreds of millions who are oppressed around the world. And yet the prevailing image of the United States in those lands is not at all as a beacon of liberty. Public sentiment almost everywhere sees the United States as self-interested and arrogant. There is a huge disconnect between what the Bush administration believes it stands for and how it is seen around the world.