What demographic still supports intervention in the middle east?

[Crumpets]

I think the US should participate in UN-backed interventions as party of a broad coalition. And I think in some cases (Syria) the UN security council is incapable of an impartial ruling and the US should be able to act with some more discretion, while still in coordinating with global and regional partners. But I'm guessing that still falls under the category of "hawkish warmongering" these days.

Put another way, I don't think the US should ever wash our hands of genocide and say it's "not our problem" so long as our asylum system remains as broken as it is.

[Crumpets]

Also, one very important point that I think is missed on a lot of Americans - US intervention abroad is not opposed by people in these countries anywhere near as much as some will have you believe. I wonder how many of the "not our problem" non-interventionists have actually talked to someone from a country where the US has intervened post-Cold War and are conveying that person's opinion, and how many are just trying to use their position as a privileged white person to put words in their mouth and speak on their behalf about why they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and fix their own problems.

[Crumpets]

Define intervention.

Military action on the level to at least Lobya 2011 or Yugoslavia 1999.

Also, one very important point that I think is missed on a lot of Americans - US intervention abroad is not opposed by people in these countries anywhere near as much as some will have you believe.

Source?

I was deliberately vague because good polling numbers are hard to come by, and the data is often hard to interpret, but here are some relevant datapoints:

ABC/WaPo/BBC poll (2010): 74% of Afghans say it was good for the US to have invaded

Global Policy Poll (2008): 49% of Iraqis say it was right for the US to have invaded, 50% say it was not right (in comparison, the numbers in the US at the time were 41% it was not a mistake to invade vs. 58% it was a mistake)

Gallup (2012): 75% of Libyans in favor of NATO intervention the previous year, 22% opposed