War-weary after the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and reeling financially from the Great Recession, the public wants U.S. leaders to focus more at home and shoulder far fewer burdens abroad. The public certainly rejects more American “boots on the ground,” and will strongly resist the new U.S. advisers and air strikes in Iraq.
That’s the dominant media narrative, and it’s mostly wrong. CONT.
Jeremy D. Rosner (Greenberg Quinlan Rosner), Time.com