america’s role in the world美国在世界上的地位.pdfVIP

The Third Way National Security Project March 12, 2007 TO: Interested Parties FROM: Matt Bennett, Sharon Burke, Bill Galston and Elaine Kamarck RE: America’s Role in the World - Results of a New Poll Overview As we approach the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, Americans are st palpably anxious about the US role in the 21 century world. The public understands that the threat of terrorism is growing and cannot be stemmed by democracy imposed by force. For most Americans, the soaring rhetoric of the President’s second Inaugural Address has crashed into the reality of Iraq, leaving them wondering about how we make our way in a world that seems to be shifting away from American leadership. Because of its failures, the Bush Doctrine has left the public shaken, not stirred. With the ground having shifted so much, so quickly on national security and foreign policy, Third Way undertook a national poll to test American public opinion in * these areas. Our survey, conducted by Penn, Schoen Berland Associates earlier this month, serves as the foundation for this memo. We provide these findings to help policymakers understand the major currents in American public opinion as they set out to design security-related policy and messaging. In short, we have found that a substantial majority of the public is now in a highly practical and less confident frame of mind, both in how they view the threats to our nation and how they view potential solutions. The majority we identified was created by Independents swinging to the Democrats’ point of view on these issues. These two groups, along with a surprisingly sizable minority of disillusioned Republicans, have built a new consensus