Saber rattling doesn’t poll well anymore. After a civilian airline was shot down over Ukraine last week, America’s hawks stepped up their calls for a more muscular intervention in the country, with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) calling the White House “cowardly” because it hasn’t armed the government in Kiev. But a new YouGov survey shows only 15 percent of Americans favoring such aid. Forty-six percent in the poll think Russia was involved in the crash, and only 14 percent believe it wasn’t. But that hasn’t translated into an enthusiasm for intervention.

Jesse Walker looks at the growing support for staying out of other people’s conflicts @ http://reason.com/archives/2014/07/23/the-public-turns-against-war