After initial mutterings of disapproval, foreign countries on that occasion soon stopped complaining about the army's removal of President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, who had ruled brutally for two decades.
Eden, who had honourably resigned as foreign secretary in 1938 in disapproval of the appeasement of Hitler and, especially, Mussolini, was nonetheless haunted by Neville Chamberlain's readiness to yield to tyrants.
Mr. Friedman does his readers further disservice by claiming that the Arab public's disapproval of U.S. foreign policy is somehow a disguised expression of their disappointment with their own governments.
Russell has harnessed all the slash-and-burn tropes of the modern war movie, creating expansive firefights, injecting pitch-black humour wherever feasible, and unleashing unambiguous disapproval of presidential foreign policy in the wake of Operation Desert Storm.
Over the years, his friends included the late Colonel Muammar Gaddafi of Libya, the conservative former ruler of Ivory Coast Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the current President of Burkina Faso, Blaise Compaore, and a rogues' gallery of businessmen, local and foreign, prepared to flout UN disapproval to make money in Liberia.
In Italy and Germany, for example, disapproval of current American foreign policy has surged by 20 percentage points from last year, according to the poll, which sampled the views of 8,000 Americans and Europeans in June.
Meanwhile, the president of my synagogue in Vancouver also attributed Justin Trudeau's electoral success to his last name – she expressed blatant disapproval for his "lightweight" foreign policy and "celebrity" appeal.
But the same poll found that disapproval of his handling of foreign policy had also gone up by six points, from 22% to 28%.
The Chinese government does not censor the dispatches of foreign correspondents, but the authorities can express disapproval of a writer's work by withholding visa renewals — a not uncommon practice.
HuffPost currently estimates Obama's approval on foreign policy at 50percentt approval and 45percentt disapproval.
