A decade has passed since the attacks of 9/11 and so much water has flown under the
proverbial bridge. Today, ordinary Americans don’t want to have a leadership role in the world, and Europeans aren’t too keen on it either. And having dithered over what to do about Guantanamo Bay,
most people in the US and Europe don’t trust President Obama’s counter-terrorist policies. Right?
No, actually wrong. According to the tenth-annual public opinion survey of the general public in the United States, Turkey, and 12 European Union member states – the Transatlantic Trends – 54 per cent of respondents from European countries surveyed want the United States to show strong leadership in world affairs. That’s a switch from the Bush years. 72 per cent of those surveyed in the EU countries think favourably of the United States – another change from the mid-2000s.
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