> Knowledge of World Leaders,
> Feb. 6-9 Gallup Poll
>
>
> Percentage
> correctly
> identifying
>
>
> Leader of Cuba 70%
> U.S. secretary of state 56%
> Prime minister of Great Britain 54%
> President of Russia 37%
> President of Mexico 29%
> Chancellor of Germany 4%
>
> [...]
If nothing else, a stable dictatorship of the proletariat holds one charm for officially anticommunist Americans: it saves them from total embarrassment when it comes to pop quizzes like this. "I know who the leader of Cuba is!" To be remembered by Americans, you have to be in charge of a country for at least five decades. The American power elite ought to keep this in mind and refrain from frequent regime changes overseas, which not only injure the populaces of regime-changed nations but also heavily tax the small data base of foreign-policy facts in American brains.
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>