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US should mind its own: poll
The Iraq war and mounting casualties have led a growing number of Americans to believe the US should mind its own business internationally. The percentage of Americans who agree that the US should mind its own business internationally has risen from 30 percent in 2002 to 42 percent currently, a poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center, showed on Thursday. Andrew Kohut, director of the think tank, said this isolationist sentiment is on a par with attitudes held during the mid-1970s, following the Vietnam War, and in the 1990s after the Cold War ended. The majority (52 percent) of those questioned believe President George W. Bush is doing a good job of handling terrorist threats, about half disapprove of his foreign policy and 57 percent disapprove of his handling of Iraq.
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