Truthout | Op-Ed - Wednesday, 05 February 2014
As the year 2013 drew to an end, the BBC reported on the results of the WIN/Gallup International poll on the question: “Which country do you think is the greatest threat to peace in the world today?”
The United States was the champion by a substantial margin, winning three times the votes of second-place Pakistan.
By contrast, the debate in American scholarly and media circles is
about whether Iran can be contained, and whether the huge NSA
surveillance system is needed to protect U.S. security.
In view of the poll, it would seem that there are more pertinent
questions: Can the United States be contained and other nations secured
in the face of the U.S. threat?
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