Many Iraqis are far from confident that the United States is a positive force in their country, a recent State Department report reveals. In fact, about one in three Iraqis believe America secretly supports the Islamic State terrorist network (ISIS), which has ravaged the country over the last two years:
The [American] embassy [in Baghdad] confronts active disinformation campaigns and residual suspicions about U.S. policy that undermine its messaging. Recent Department polling shows that about 40 percent of Iraqis believe that the United States is working to destabilize Iraq and control its natural resources and nearly a third believe that America supports terrorism in general or the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant [ISIL or ISIS], specifically. [State Department]
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