America to Bill Kristol et al, SHUT THE FUCK UP!

While right-wing nutcases call for bombing Iran:

Public Agenda and its partner Foreign Affairs today made public the fourth edition of the Confidence in U.S. Foreign Policy Index (CFPI). The new research provides striking evidence that Americans' anguish over Iraq is spilling over to other areas of foreign policy -- with serious potential effects on the policy options available to current and future leaders.

-- 84 percent are worried about the way things are going for the United States in world affairs

-- 82 percent say the world is becoming more dangerous for the United States and its people

-- 73 percent say the United States is not doing a good job as a leader in creating a more peaceful and prosperous world

-- 68 percent believe the rest of the world sees the United States negatively

-- 67 percent say U.S. relations with the rest of the world are on the wrong track

Iraq and the Spill-Over Effect

-- Public support for military solutions in many scenarios is virtually off the table for most of the public. In dealing with Iran, support for possible military action is in the single digits (8 percent)

-- 70 percent say that criticism that the United States has been too quick to resort to war is at least partly justified (31 percent say it's "totally justified"). On what the government must do to fight terrorism, 67 percent say we should put more emphasis on diplomatic and economic methods, while 27 percent say more emphasis on military efforts

-- 84 percent say "initiating military force only when we have the support of our allies" should be important to our foreign policy (51 percent say "very important")