Publish dateThursday 24 May 2012 - 14:50
Story Code : 41900
Majority of Americans want troops out of Europe
The results of a new poll suggest that 51 of US citizens are getting fed up with even nonviolent operations in Europe since it is the US defence budget swallow.

“We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We're going broke,” Paul said during a televised debate in September.

According to findings published this week by Rasmussen Reports, more than half of the United States is in favor of pulling American troops from Western Europe, where the country’s forces are not engaged in any formal wars.

Of those polled by researchers with Rasmussen, 51 percent say that they are in favor of emptying all US bases across the pond. Only 29 percent are opposed to ending those operations, and 20 percent say that they are undecided on the matter.

The results of the study come from a recent telephone survey answered by 1,000 US voters who say they plan on casting a ballot in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. There is only a 3 percent margin of sampling error in the study, suggesting that — even accounting for a statistical gaffe — the majority of Americas want to see the country abolishing unpopular military operations.

“I will reverse Obama-era military cuts. I will not allow runaway entitlement spending to swallow the defense budget as has happened in Europe and as President Obama is now allowing here,” Romney says in a recent Chicago Tribune op-ed.(RT)
Source : Afghan Voice Agency (AVA), International Service
https://avapress.com/vdcfx1dj.w6dyxa7riw.html
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