You Can Fool Some of the People…

From Glenn Greenwald:

While Obama’s popularity has surged in Western Europe, the changes in the Muslim world in terms of how the U.S. is perceived have been small to nonexistent. As Der Spiegel put it in the wake of a worldwide survey in July: “While Europe’s ardor for Obama appears fervent, he has actually made little progress in the regions where the U.S. faces its biggest foreign policy problems.” People who live in regions that have long been devastated by American weaponry don’t have the luxury of being dazzled by pretty words and speeches. They apparently — and rationally — won’t believe that America will actually change from a war-making nation into a peace-making one until there are tangible signs that this is happening. It’s because that has so plainly not yet occurred that the Nobel Committee has made a mockery out of their own award.