Politicians from President Obama and the Clintons on the 'Left' to Senator Bob Corker (ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) on the 'Right', seem to be out of touch with the American people! Not only politicians but also pundits and even 'analysts'!

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Told you so!

If you read my comments at all, you have - since the beginning of the year, and before - seen a lot of this:

United States non-interventionism

I've been talking up here at OEN this growing mood sweeping the US public, and now - over the last few days - the evidence is coming in and piling up:

From antiwar.org/blog (30 April 2014) story 'WSJ/NBC Poll: Americans Want Less Interventionist Foreign Policy' by John Glaser - that begins by quoting WSJ story by Janet Hook -

Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine preoccupies Washington, a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.

In a marked change from past decades, nearly half of those surveyed want the U.S. to be less active on the global stage, with fewer than one-fifth calling for more active engagement--an anti-interventionist current that sweeps across party lines.

Quoting from the antiwar.org/blog -

You can tell from the way the reporter frames the poll's findings that she [WSJ's Janet Hook] is unhappy about what she calls "anti-interventionist" sentiment. She is shocked such sentiments can be so popular even as (in her words) Russia defies U.S.-EU sanctions and Ukraine continues to unravel.

But she must have missed the YouGov poll conducted last month finding that only 14 percent of Americans said the U.S. has "any responsibility" to get involved in Ukraine, and only 18 percent think the U.S. "has any responsibility to protect Ukraine if Russia were to invade."

[Quoting HuffingtonPost.com] "Americans are more likely than not to say that the United States has no responsibility to get involved in Ukraine even under extreme circumstances, the new survey shows," the Huffington Post reports. "Pluralities of Democrats, Republicans and independents agreed that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to protect Ukraine."

The Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll is consistent as well with the Pew poll from back in December that found a majority of Americans -- more than ever before in Pew's 50-year history of polling this question -- think the U.S. "should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own."

Authors Bio:

Charles Roll's bio: specs for bio, per OpEdNews: "your work, your passions, your family, your activism, your hobbies, your favorites, your age, marital status, beliefs, books you've written, accomplishments in your life, favorite quotations ... reason to be connected to OpEdNews"

My work has been varied. A cog in a factory, man imitating machine, lifting and stacking every ten seconds, for 8 hours and 10 hours night after night. Army, not much as a soldier. That was during the UMT&S Act, so I enlisted rather than be drafted. I wanted to go with dignity. That's my story, anyway.

I love music. Making music, it's like sex, I can find the flow experience there, lose the self entirely. Poetry too. But I don't 'write' modern poetry, preferring lyrical stuff. Ezra Pound said that music that departs too far from dance loses it, and poetry that departs too far from song loses it too. Or words to that effect.

My family. My origins. Born in Greater Oklahoma, at the bottom of the Great Depression, son of impoverished pioneer stock (aka 'rednecks') mixed with migrants from Ireland, who came on British passports during the 1920s.

I have been arrested, as were so many others, at the Atomic Test Site in Nevada. My defense was that I had been invited by the actual people of the land, the Western Shoshone, and by the great Corbin Harney, author of 'The Way It Is: One Water, One Air, One Mother Earth'.

My hobby, it seems, is being here at OpEdNews in an effort to understand the world in a social context.

My beliefs? There's somebody posting here at OpEdNews, a Cassidy by name, who lives on the Old Sod of the Emerald Isle ... who practices what he terms the Lotus Cross Devotion. I'll go with that.

Politically, I am of the Democracy delusional system.

Books I've published? No. Accomplishments? Nothing notable.

Favorite quotations. One of them is from the shortest of the gosho of Nichiren Daishonin, 'Great Evil and Great Good' -

"Great events never have minor omens. When great evil occurs, great good follows."

From Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism Library at http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/168