Reality Check: Obama Has Not Restored America's Image in the Middle East

Not that this is how you should necessarily measure things, but you'd never know from last night's foreign policy debate that the United States is actually less popular in the Middle East today than it was in the Bush years. According to the Pew survey, attitudes to the US today in Lebanon are 3 points less positive than in 2008; in Egypt 3 points less, in Jordan 7 points less, and in Pakistan 7 points less.