Survey Says Internationalism Is on the Rise. (Insider report).

We're all internationalists now, according to a new poll carried out by the Pew Research Center in conjunction with the Council on Foreign Relations. The survey, which re-interviewed 1,281 Americans who had been polled on a range of international issues in a previous study prior to September 11th, found that "the terrorist attacks and the war in Afghanistan have created a new internationalist sentiment among the public. There is much more support for a multilateral foreign policy than before Sept. 11.... By about a two-to-one margin ... the public thinks that taking an active role in the world, rather than becoming less involved, will be a more effective way of avoiding problems like terrorism in the future."

Discussing survey results, the study correlates ignorance of foreign events with reluctance to support internationalist policies: "Americans who are not well informed about foreign affairs are more worried by the possibility of new terrorist attacks and less supportive of an internationalist role for the United States.... Roughly a third of the less knowledgeable group say the best way for the U.S. to avoid problems like terrorism is to not get too involved with international problems, compared to about one-quarter of those who are well-informed about international affairs."

There's only one drawback to this supposed new popular love affair with internationalism: The "nearly universal imperative for defeating the terrorist threat" has "taken some of the steam out of what had been growing public support for solving non-geopolitical global problems [such as] drug trafficking, hunger, global warming and the spread of AIDS." Memo to the globalist set: You can't fool all of the people all of the time.