While the anti-war appeasement crowd continues to blame America for inciting terror, Muslim countries are becoming increasingly intolerant of terrorism. A poll conducted by the Pew Global Attitudes Project shows that we are winning the war on terror.

In a striking finding, predominantly Muslim populations in a sampling of six North African, Middle East and Asian countries are shared to "a considerable degree" Western nations' concerns about Islamic extremism, the survey found. Many in those Muslim nations see it as threat to their own country, the poll found.

"Most Muslim publics are expressing less support for terrorism than in the past. Confidence in Osama bin Laden has declined markedly in some countries, and fewer believe suicide bombings that target civilians are justified in the defense of Islam" ...

Compared with previous surveys, the new poll also found growing majorities or pluralities of Muslims surveyed now say democracy can work in their countries and is not just a political system for the West. Support for democracy was in the 80 percent range in Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon and Morocco and the highest score at 43 percent in Pakistan and 48 percent in Turkey, where significant numbers of respondents were unsure.

"They are not just paying lip service. They are saying they specifically want a fair judiciary, freedom of expression and more than one party to participate in elections. It wasn't just a vague concept," said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center and director of the project. "U.S. and Western ideas about democracy have been globalized and are in the Muslim world."

While Pew was shocked at the findings, I would bet that most hawks are thinking "we told you so". The foreign terrorists who make up the so-called "insurgency" in Iraq have been targeting civilians as well as coalition troops. It's only a matter of time until they start placing blame with the bad guys holding the bombs and not supporters of the global war on terror.