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The Federalist | Are neocons really back in the Trump administration?
The latest poll by YouGov and the Charles Koch Institute (CKI) [found that] 68 and 69 percent of Americans want the troops back from Iraq and Afghanistan, respectively. Overall, 52 percent of Americans want less military engagement abroad, and 60 percent of Americans oppose getting involved in any war with Iran. The public simply doesn’t consider the Middle East an important place to be involved anymore (the full poll results are striking.)
“The Middle East isn’t just a quagmire for American troops,” [Will] Ruger, [CKI’s Vice President of Research and Policy] said, “It is a trap that could snare the president as well given that the American public is clearly uninterested in more military engagement in the Middle East and elsewhere. People are just tired of two decades of war. Trump would be wise to fulfill his commitment to end our endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This poll and others show that he’ll have the public’s support. It certainly wouldn’t hurt him to be on the side of nearly 70 percent of Americans.” |
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