WASHINGTON SECRETS Poof: Public says America's world leadership has tumbled to 40-year low BY PAUL BEDARD | DECEMBER 4, 2013 AT 8:52 AM TOPICS: WASHINGTON SECRETS AFGHANISTAN IRAN POLLS CHINA SYRIA GEORGE W. BUSH FOREIGN POLICY President Obama poses with his Nobel Prize medal and diploma alongside Nobel committee chairman... President Barack Obama receives the Nobel Prize medal and diploma during a ceremony in Raadhuset... For the first time in nearly 40 years, a majority of Americans believe the United States is less important around the world and that it should mind its own business, a stunning rejection of President Obama's foreign policy just four years after he received the Nobel Prize. A new Pew Research Center poll found that 53 percent of people believe that the U.S. is playing a less important role as a world leader than a decade ago, the highest figure since 1974. Worse: 70 percent said that the U.S. is respected less than in the past, almost matc
