----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>The genders see the War on Terror in totally different terms.
>Rasmussen reports that men, by 51 percent to 36 percent, say that
>the U.S. is safer than it was before 9/11. But women are evenly
>divided, with 41 percent feeling more safe and 42 percent, less.
>
>Women disagree with the entire Bush strategy of fighting terrorism.
>Offered a choice between "letting terrorists know we will fight back
>aggressively" and "working with other nations," men opt for fighting
>aggressively by 53 to 41 percent while women want us to work with
>other nations instead by 54 to 36 percent - a gender gap of 30
>points.
Sometimes it's so embarrassing to be a man.
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"In the first months of the occupation, we, the educated people, thought America would show us a humanitarian way, a political way, to solve problems," Jarrah said. "But this use of force means the efforts to find a political solution for Iraq has failed, and now America is using Saddam's approach to problems: brute force.
"America won the war on April 9 last year; they lost the war on April 9 this year. That is what Iraqis feel." http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-slip19apr19,1,3123068.story?coll=la-headlines-world