Washington’s BlogAmericans Turn Anti-War
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 ….
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—an anti-interventionist current that sweeps across party lines.
A Pew poll from December found a majority of Americans – more than ever before in Pew’s 50-year history of polling this question – think the U.S. “should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own.”
A Pew/USA Today poll conducted over the weekend found that Americans oppose – by a 2-1 margin – any U.S. military aid to Ukraine.
A YouGov poll conducted last month found that only 14 percent of Americans said the U.S. has “any responsibility” to get involved in Ukraine, and only 18 percent think the U.S. “has any responsibility to protect Ukraine if Russia were to invade.”
Huffington Post reports:
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 ….
Pluralities of Democrats, Republicans and independents agreed that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to protect Ukraine.
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).
A USA Today/Pew Poll from January shows that Americans now believe by a 50%-38% margin that war against Iraq was stupid.
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.
Most Americans are now strongly opposed to intervention in any Arab country.
The warmongers, however, are desperate to drum up business.
War On Drugs
A new Pew poll also shows that the American people are sick of the war on drugs, noting that a broad majority of Americans are ready to significantly reduce the role of the criminal justice system in dealing with people who use drugs. Pew found:
- 63% of Americans think that we should stop mandatory prison terms for drug law violations
- 54% are in favor of marijuana legalization
- 67% say the government should focus more on providing treatment for people who use drugs like cocaine and heroin, and only 26% think the focus should be more on prosecuting people who use such drugs
Of course, the war on drugs is a total boondoggle. And stopping government support for drug dealersand producers might be a good place to start (even though it is making American banks rich).
Other Failed Wars
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.
Of course, neither mainstream political party represents the interests of the people … as revealed by polls.
Of course, these attacks on other countries have nothing to do with helping “save” them. These attacks have everything to do with a global takeover by the NWO.
Absolutely!
I don’t need to take a poll to realize all of this. Just take a walk on the streets. The only people who care about the wars are the idiot advertising companies that are paid off to plaster “Support the troops” pictures on Billboard signs. People need to change these signs and slogans to say,
“Support the troops….by bringing them home!”.
NC, I agree, that’s the best way to support our troops….bring them home to stay!
But yet many of these same people are reelecting imbeciles like Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama! (otherwise they’d not be in office). Perhaps someday they really will understand freedom, but I doubt it.
Are you really this stupid? Are you referring to those elections consisting of thugs at the polling places, foreign nationals voting, Diebold Machines, and the votes being counted by a corporation in Spain? I guess you are one of those fools that actually believes that it is the people’s stupidity rather than criminal fraud that has accommodated this international soviet socialist insurgency.