# Caroline Gray on Crashing the War Party

- Link: https://instituteforglobalaffairs.org/2022/10/caroline-gray-on-crashing-the-war-party/
- Published: 2022-10-07T02:13:00-04:00

## **Surprise: Americans and the Washington blob see foreign policy a bit differently**

**_IGA research fellow [Caroline Gray ](https://egfound.org/by-author/caroline-gray/)
appeared on_ [Crashing the War Party](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/surprise-americans-and-the-washington-blob-see/id1567134150?i=1000581880450)****
_on October 7, 2022._**

_Ever feel like the Washington crowd doesn’t talk your language when it comes to
how the government solves its problems overseas? After 20 years of war, it seems
Americans are much more circumspect about war powers, sending weapons to dictators,
the US military footprint in Asia, even the current war in Ukraine, according to
a new poll by the Institute for Global Affairs. Senior researcher and podcast producer
Caroline Gray joins us to break down the results, which show younger voters are 
perhaps the most resistant to the status quo of all. In the first segment, Dan and
Kelley talk about the Biden Administration’s latest efforts in cajoling the Pacific
Island countries into its anti-China web._

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## **Written by **󠀁[Caroline Gray](https://egfound.org/by-author/caroline-gray/)󠁿

Caroline is a senior researcher with the Independent America project at the Institute
for Global Affairs and producer of the podcast, _None Of The Above_.

 * [Twitter](https://egfound.org/by-author/caroline-gray/)
 * [LinkedIn](https://egfound.org/by-author/caroline-gray/)

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