American Isolationism Soars To The Highest Level In Decades

[xchrom]

http://www.businessinsider.com/american-isolationism-soars-to-the-highest-level-in-decades-2014-4

More Americans oppose foreign intervention than at any time since 1964, when the Pew Research Center started tracking this view.



Coinciding with increasing disillusionment of the United States' handling of the invasions in Iraq and Afghanistan, 53% of Americans in 2013 said that the U.S. should mind its own business internationally. This was up from just 30% of Americans in 2002.



At the same time, a record number of Americans think the United States is becoming less powerful on the world stage. Climbing from just 20% in 2004, 53% of Americans in 2013 felt that the U.S. was less important and powerful globally it was a decade earlier.



Intriguingly, despite general trends towards military isolationism, 66% of Americans believe that greater U.S. involvement in the global economy is a good thing. The U.S. military often plays a role in securing global trade and protecting the interests of its allies.

[pipoman]

1. If the last question was

'Do you support expansion of free trade agreements and development of new free trade agreements? '

That the results would have been completely different. ..

The word "isolationism" is the buzz word used by free trade corporatists to demean those of us who believe that 'free trade agreements ' as they are now known are exporting our jobs and destroying the middle class.

[xchrom]

2. MYOB should be differentiated from 'isolationism'.

and trade should and what that is should be presented to the electorate.

[JustAnotherGen]

3. ITA

The word "isolationism" is the buzz word used by free trade corporatists to demean those of us who believe that 'free trade agreements ' as they are now known are exporting our jobs and destroying the middle class.

[malaise]

4. Remember the war criminal of a dick says

polls don't matter. He wants non-stop bombing - I think he likes the war-profiteering angle best.