ignorant, naive, or blindly partisan?

Matthew Yglesias thinks that poll results should determine our foreign policy, because they express the will of the people.

Ezra Klein, who often comments wistfully on Yglesias’s half-formed opinions, isn’t quite so sure. Then Klein idly wonders whether there has been a time when America wasn’t gung-ho to go to war.

In the comments, Yglesias responds that neither Kosovo nor Gulf War I “polled well” before they began.

World War Two took place before Yglesias and his acolytes were born, so even though he’s a Harvard graduate, I guess I shouldn’t expect him to know anything about the long history of American isolationism or of the Republicans’ fervently partisan anti-war sentiment in the run-up to that particular war.
On the other hand, I’ve read that Yglesias is under contract to write a book about foreign policy. I’ll let you decide whether there is any reason to take seriously anything that he writes.