Success in Iraq, Middle East Can Counter Anti-Americanism, Says Powell
Regional-USA, Politics, 10/29/2003

Anti-American attitudes in the world can be changed if the United States can demonstrate that its policies in Iraq are successful and progress can be made in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, said Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Speaking to US backed Radio Sawa October 28, Powell said many anti-American attitudes stem from the U.S. involvement in Iraq and the lack of progress in the Middle East peace process. On the latter, Powell said he thought that sometimes "too great a burden is placed on America" to solve the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, but he pledged the United States would do its part and called upon Arab nations to also play a role.

"I think too often, Arab leaders, rather than dealing with the problems they have in their countries, simply avoid some of those problems by pointing to the problem of the Middle East and suggesting the United States ought to fix that, as opposed to Arab nations doing what they can to help fix problems with respect to the Palestinian and Israeli issue, as well as within their own countries," Powell said.

Worth noting that the US, a country which claims and holds itself to be is the main power broker and enforcer in the world, is the main supporter of Israel, and has effectively blocked any meaningful enforcement of existing UN resolutions against Israel, and continues to single handedly block new UN resolutions against Israel by the use of its veto power, in defiance of the world community will as UN voting records demonstrate.

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