Posted on 12/04/2009 2:15:37 AM PST by Schnucki
Americans are turning their backs on the rest of the world, showing a tendency towards isolationism that has risen to the highest level in four decades, according to a poll published yesterday.
Almost half (49 per cent) said the U.S. should 'mind its own business' internationally and let other countries get along as best they can, the Pew Research Center found.
The results appear to conflict with President Obama's activist foreign policy, including a newly announced build-up of 30,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Only 32 per cent of those questioned favoured increasing U.S. troops in Afghanistan, while 40 per cent favoured decreasing them.
And fewer than half, or 46 per cent, of those polled said it was somewhat or very likely that Afghanistan would be able to withstand the radicals' threat.
Forty-one per cent of those surveyed said the U.S. plays a less important and powerful role as a world leader than it did a decade ago, up from 25 per cent who said that just before the September 11 attacks, the report said.
Pew Research Center president Andrew Kohut said the 'very bad economy' appeared most responsible for the growth of isolationist feeling.
He said the public was also 'displeased with the wars we are waging in Iraq and Afghanistan'.
While isolationism and unilateralism reached four-decade highs among the public, the stature of China increased.
Among Americans polled, 44 per cent said China was the world's leading economic power compared with 27 per cent who named the U.S.
In February 2008, 41 per cent said the U.S. was the leading economic power, while 30 per cent said China.
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Wrong, those people polled were not Americans. I will appeal to Patton when he talked about Americans hating a loser. America will hate a loser even if it is its self. The pussies who want to lose the Afghanistan war are not Americans, they are pussies. Republicans better know that American does not lose wars, we win. Any President responsible for losing a war belongs in prison. Why should good Americans risk their lives if a President does not risk prison. When I learned about leadership, I learned that the leaded held the greatest responsibility. America has the capability to win any war within three months. If a President is incapable of winning a war within 4 years he should be imprisoned. Let the next President bail him out by winning the war, says I.
I see that Africa isn’t part of the world map.
By that reckoning, Bush would be in jail. For political/diplomatic reasons, we are incapable of winning any more. We don’t and we won’t give the military the chance.
That looks about right.
It is time America takes care of it’s own. No more foreign aid for the europeans, islamic terrroist depots, africa(aids inc.) We need to pull our troops from Germany and the other non essential countries and put our military on our borders to protect us.
We should stop the handouts and rebuild our military like it was under President Reagan.
The Keyan needs to be impeached and returned back to his muslim mecca, to include his POS supporters.
Words for thought,
Molon Labe-NSNR
P.S. You and I are among the few, who will post what needs to be said and done in our country. I post to many on the FR, but most are too afraid to reply.
But there's nothing good there except diamonds anyway.
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