"WE'RE NUMBER 1"

The French Foreign Minister notes that the luster of America's image abroad may never recover from the Iraq War and the BBC conducted a poll that backs up this claim:

View of US's global role 'worse'
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 00:16 GMT
The view of the US's role in the world has deteriorated both internationally and domestically, a BBC poll suggests.

The World Service survey, conducted in 25 nations including the US, found that three in four respondents disapproved of how Washington had dealt with Iraq.

The majority of the 26,381 respondents also disapproved of the way five other foreign policy areas had been handled.

Here's a representative graphic: