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Originally Posted by Itse
I think a part of is just the overall failure of the "War on Terror". So many wars, proxy and otherwise, and the Middle East is as bad as ever and Taleban rules in Afghanistan again, Libya is much worse off than it was with Gaddafi, etc.
A lot of Americans are tired of paying for long wars that either don't seem to go anywhere or actively make things worse. Propaganda has done it's thing clearly, but the ground was prepared by Americans themselves.
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The US propoganda machine is the best in the world too and has influence on not only US media but also media in Europe and other west aligned countries. However, the majority of the world's population has risen above poverty and continues to develop themselves now and nobody in the world (except for Canadians, Europeans and others in that alliance) has interest in continued western and American hegemony.
With more access to information today, people are harder to fool and all of America's wars against terrorists, bad leaders, etc are now seen for what they've always been about - interference in another country's politics and policies to benefit America economically and maintain America's interests around the world. As you correctly pointed out in the case of Libya, countries realize that things always end up worse - much worse - when the US intervenes to "bring those people freedom". And for Americans themselves, they look at their own living situations in the US and wonder why their money is going to foreign leaders to fight wars that America loves to get involved in to fuel the war machine when their towns/cities at home are crumbling with outdated transportation infrasture and their leaders refuse to provide their people with the most basic of things such as health care.