Latest Pew Survey: Anti-Americanism Declining?

I tend to agree with Max Boot that world opinion is a mercurial thing, but there is a clear decline in anti-Americanism in the Middle East, if the latest Pew Global Attitudes Project survey is to be believed. Interestingly, there is no such similar decline in dour old Europe. Is it possible that the positive changes we’ve helped bring to Indonesia, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and–yes–Iraq, might only further embitter those unaffected by those changes and simultaneously disinclined to credit us for them? I honestly don’t know, I’m just asking to see if Angus is still reading.

One omission of note: no data on South Korea.