From the WaPo Monkey Cage:
When we talk about things that are literally impossible to parody, and are really just too pathetic to contemplate, this is what we're referring to. But it explains a lot.
On March 28-31, 2014, we asked a national sample of 2,066 Americans (fielded via Survey Sampling International Inc. (SSI), what action they wanted the U.S. to take in Ukraine, but with a twist: In addition to measuring standard demographic characteristics and general foreign policy attitudes, we also asked our survey respondents to locate Ukraine on a map as part of a larger, ongoing project to study foreign policy knowledge. We wanted to see where Americans think Ukraine is and to learn if this knowledge (or lack thereof) is related to their foreign policy views. We found that only one out of six Americans can find Ukraine on a map, and that this lack of knowledge is related to preferences: The farther their guesses were from Ukraine’s actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene with military force.
When we talk about things that are literally impossible to parody, and are really just too pathetic to contemplate, this is what we're referring to. But it explains a lot.
1 comment:
We haven't gone toe-to-toe with a halfway decent conventional force in sixty years (China). Now we're pulling the Russian bear's tail. You remember Russia. They gave the German Wehrmacht a beatdown in WWII. Lost like what, 30 or so million people doing it, too. They were the ones that really won WWII, paid for it upfront in blood, and didn't blink an eye over the cost. Now they've got nukes. What are we thinking?
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