Americans see a US in decline, finds Pew survey

BBC News - Americans see a US in decline, finds Pew survey:
"The Pew survey also found that 70% of Americans saw the US as less respected than in the past, nearly the same (71%) as under President George W Bush.
More than half of Americans (52%) - for the first time in 50 years - said the US should "mind its own business".
Some 56% disapproved of President Barack Obama's foreign policy.
Fifty-three percent of the public felt the US played a less important or powerful role as a world leader than a decade previously. The last time more than half of the public held that view was in 1974.
A decade ago, just 20% of Americans felt the same way."