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## Anti-American Terrorism
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#### Anti-American terrorism is primarily fueled by foreign policy and a legacy of interventionalism, rather than a distrust in democracy or “western values.”
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* [Pew Research: Kohut 05](https://www.pewresearch.org/2005/11/10/arab-and-muslim-perceptions-of-the-united-states/)
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* An analysis of Middle Eastern perceptions and their relations to terrorism
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* Found that the U.S. is less popular in the Middle East than in any other part of the world and that _“anti-Americanism around the world is **driven** first and foremost by **opposition to U.S. foreign policy**.”_
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* High pluralities in all Middle Eastern countries surveyed cited opposition to the U.S. based on:
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* The war in Iraq
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* The war on terror
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* the perception that America acts unilaterally on the world stage
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* U.S. policy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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* Also found that Middle Easterners do not hate so-called “Western values” nor cite that as a point of opposition against the U.S.
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* _“overwhelming majorities of Jordanians, Lebanese, and Moroccans say **democracy** is not just a Western way of governance, and that **it can work in their countries**”_
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* [Pew Research 05](https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2005/07/14/islamic-extremism-common-concern-for-muslim-and-western-publics/)
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* Support for democracy is high in Middle Eastern countries; the public generally does not have a hatred for perceived “Western values”
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* The following proportions of the public say that democracy can work well and is not just for the West:
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* Morocco (83%)
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* Lebanon (83%)
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* Jordan (80%)
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* Indonesia (77%)
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* Turkey (48%)
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* Pakistan (43%)
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