There's been a "17 percent decline in visitors from overseas. In one year we lost $43 billion," he said. "Forty-three billion dollars, that's a lot jobs.
By Tamika Petty
(AXcess News) Washington - The extent to which Muslims in four countries dislike American foreign policy and the U.S. as a whole is disheartening, officials said after a briefing about a new poll of Muslims abroad.
During a hearing Thursday on declining approval for American foreign policy in Muslim countries, Steven Kull, director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, discussed the poll results.
"We did indeed find negative views toward the U.S. government, even though the governments surveyed ... have a positive relationship with the U.S.," Kull said.
Suspicions about the reasons for invading Iraq and U.S. policy toward Islam, Kull said many Muslims abroad have concluded "the U.S. does not live up to its values."
Out of the four countries PIPA polled - Morocco, Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia - Egyptians have the worst view of the United States' goals.
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