Limited international support of Bush in election.
A recent poll showed only two countries out of the dozen or so surveyed support Bush over Kerry. (*)
The only two countries surveyed supporting Bush are Israel and Russia. Israel has endured countless bloody attacks. Russia recently suffered the Beslan schoolchildren massacre. Here in the USA, we had the 9/11 attacks.
The Guardian says the reason for the Kerry preference is the “strong personal antipathy” worldwide against Bush.
If Kerry were to follow his campaign promise, however, and fight the Global War on Terrorism as vigorously as Bush and yet more competently than Bush, there is little reason to think international opinion would continue to support Kerry in such large numbers.
What is more likely is that Kerry does not plan to fight the war as vigorously as has Bush, and that people around the globe have forecast that and understand that, even as Kerry vocally promises the opposite.