Americans Want The U.S. To Pull Back From World Affairs, Poll Finds (CHART)

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More Americans want the U.S. to take a step back from its interventionist role on the world stage, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Wednesday.

Forty-seven percent of Americans want the U.S. to reduce its role in global affairs, a marked increase from pass decades, according to the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, only 14 percent of Americans felt America should take on a less-active role.

Only 19 percent of Americans said that the U.S. should be more active in world affairs, while 37 percent felt the U.S. should be more active in 2001.

When it came to President Obama’s approach toward Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, 37 percent of Americans approved of his policy, while 43 percent approved in March.

The WSJ/NBC poll surveyed 1,000 adult via telephone April 23-27 with a margin of error plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.

Chart via WSJ/NBC

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  1. Americans want the U.S. to pull back because most Americans don’t have a basic understanding of world affairs.

  2. Polling American Idiots RE foreign policy is like polling chickens RE the minimum wage.

    Just look at the results within this poll. 37% approve of Obama’s essentially non-interventionist Ukraine policy, which implies that a majority want more intervention, even as they claim they want less action in foreign affairs.

    You can’t fix that kind of stupid.

  3. Not hard to see why. People are sick and tired of useless wars that cost trillions of dollars, waste thousands and thousands of lives, and accomplish nothing of value.

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