A
new poll from the Pew Research Center, “America’s Place
in the World 2013,” brings some sobering news to advocates of armed
international meddling. Among a survey of some 2,000 Americans, 51
percent believe that the U.S. does too much in helping solve world
problems, and 52 percent say that the U.S. “should mind its own
business internationally and let other countries get along the best
they can on their own.” Gene Healy points out that Americans’
renewed appreciation for restraint looks like a return to what
Thomas Jefferson, in his first inaugural address, called “the
essential principles of our Government”:
from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/12/10/gene-healy-its-not-isolationist-for-amer
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