IP: Global support for U.S. bombing campaign slipping

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51068-2001Nov6.html

By Kevin Sullivan
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, November 7, 2001; Page A01
MEXICO CITY -- It was a traditional altar for Mexico's Day of the Dead 
observance, filled with flowers, candles and sweet bread laid out for 
departed loved ones. Except this one also featured bagels and photos of New 
York, and it sat next to the U.S. Embassy here as a show of solidarity with 
the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Mexicans who showed up to inaugurate the display made clear their sympathy 
for the dead in the United States. But they also made clear that sympathy 
did not necessarily translate into support for the U.S. war in Afghanistan. 
"I think the government of President Bush has gone too far; the war 
frightens me," said Guadalupe Loaeza, a columnist and social commentator 
who helped organize the altar display.

Such views seem to be increasingly widespread around the world. The initial 
outburst of solidarity after Sept. 11 has frayed considerably as U.S. 
warplanes bomb Afghanistan relentlessly for the fifth week running. This is 
true not only in Arab and other Muslim countries, where the U.S. military 
campaign has provoked popular outrage, but in other countries where people 
feel less of a direct connection to the events.

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