{"id":13876,"date":"2014-05-05T10:48:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2014-05-05T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:48:33","slug":"americans-turn-anti-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13876","title":{"rendered":"Americans turn anti-War"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"warliberty\"<\/a>The American people are now overwhelmingly opposed to more war in Ukraine, Syria, Iran and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

A new Wall Street Journal\/NBC poll shows:<\/p>\n

Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington \u2026.<\/p>\n

In a marked change from past decades, nearly half of those surveyed want the U.S. to be less active on the global stage, with fewer than one-fifth calling for more active engagement\u2014an anti-interventionist current that sweeps across party lines.<\/p>\n

A Pew poll from December found a majority of Americans \u2013 more than ever before in Pew\u2019s 50-year history of polling this question \u2013 think the U.S. \u201cshould mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Pew\/USA Today poll conducted over the weekend found that Americans oppose \u2013 by a 2-1 margin \u2013 any U.S. military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

A YouGov poll conducted last month found that only 14 percent of Americans said the U.S. has \u201cany responsibility\u201d to get involved in Ukraine, and only 18 percent think the U.S. \u201chas any responsibility to protect Ukraine if Russia were to invade.\u201d<\/p>\n

Huffington Post reports:<\/p>\n

Americans are more likely than not to say that the United States has no responsibility to get involved in Ukraine even under extreme circumstances, the new survey shows \u2026.<\/p>\n

Pluralities of Democrats, Republicans and independents agreed that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to protect Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Support for a war against Syria is less than one-sixth the approval level Americans had for the Iraq war in 2003 (Americans would rather have a root canal or a colonoscopy than bomb Syria).<\/p>\n

A USA Today\/Pew Poll from January shows that Americans now believe by a 50%-38% margin that war against Iraq was stupid.<\/p>\n

Support even for the Afghanistan war has collapsed. For example, only 35% of all Americans support the Afghanistan war, according to a 2011 CNN poll.<\/p>\n

Most Americans are now strongly opposed to intervention in any Arab country.<\/p>\n

The warmongers, however, are desperate to drum up business.<\/p>\n

Obama has also declared a war on inequality. But given that income inequality has increased more under Obama than under Bush, and that bad policy enacted on a bipartisan basis is making inequality worse and worse, we may be in real trouble.<\/p>\n

Of course, neither mainstream political party represents the interests of the people \u2026 as revealed by polls.<\/p>\n

Source: washingtonsblog.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American people are now overwhelmingly opposed to more war in Ukraine, Syria, Iran and elsewhere. A new Wall Street Journal\/NBC poll shows: Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington \u2026. In a marked change from past decades, … Continue reading “Americans turn anti-War”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[782,1295],"tags":[8907,8562,198,7484,1638],"class_list":["post-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-in-depth-coverage","tag-anti-interventionist","tag-anti-war","tag-syria","tag-ukraine","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/warliberty.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13878,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/13878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}