I can’t say where I learned this, but I take it to be fact and I operate on the assumption that Americans (by and large) are an insular people who don’t care about foreign policy and pay very little attention to it. Their voting depends in most circumstances on domestic (and even local) issues. Occasionally a foreign policy matter becomes important to them and matters in an election. Despite or maybe because of this insularity, Americans have strangely been ready to march off to a foreign war at the slightest provocation or urging. I find this baffling, but I attribute it to not being directly exposed to war’s horrors.
I think this inattention is an enormous failing and mistake, because they are ceding a big playground for the mischief and huge crimes of government officials, and these directly impact their domestic tranquility and very lives. 9/11 did nothing to alleviate this failing. It made it worse. Now there is more attention being paid to foreigners, but it’s quite often through a heavily distorted lens.
