Quote Originally Posted by franksforum View Post
And it's not just the Middle East that holds these views. The report cited a Russian high school text:

"American foreign policy is designed to dominate the strategic minerals of the Middle East through alliance with dictatorial regimes. In Asia and Latin America, it uses military force to threaten governments who challenge its commercial interests."
Russian high school text books ? Indeed, a profound source of unbiased thoughts there. Recall when Boris Yeltsin removed all the history books from Mother Russia (due to purported mistakes), only to be again replaced by Putin to (ahem) correct history

Check out what the North Koreans taught (still teach?) beginning with kindergarten regarding capitalistic America(ns). I agree, we are not the most popular nation on earth, but utilizing Middle Eastern disgust/thoughts, Russia's high school books and French journalists to create and substantiate a USG report seems shoddy.