U.S. should stay out of foreign affairs, a study shows

47% of American citizens believe that the United States are too active in the world affairs as President Obama tries to juggle crises in the Middle East and the Ukraine.

A near-majority of the respondents of a recent poll said that the United States should be less active concerning foreign affairs, opposed to the 19% that believe that the U.S. involvement should be more significant.

Three out of ten participants said that the current level of involvement is just right.

A study conducted after the 9/11 attacks showed then that nearly 4 in ten Americans said they wanted to see more engagement around the world, and just 14% said the nation should be less active.

U.S. President Barack Obama defended his strategy in foreign affairs:

"For some reason, many who were proponents of what I consider to be a disastrous decision to go into Iraq haven’t really learned the lesson of the last decade, and they keep on just playing the same note over and over again,” he said, adding that “my job as Commander-in-Chief is to look at what is it that is going to advance our security interests over the long term, to keep our military in reserve for where we absolutely need it.”