I think this is my favorite poll ever simply because it proves that the dumber you are, the more likely you want to go to war.  It’s called “The Republican Redneck and Proud” theorem.

So researchers at Dartmouth, Princeton, and Harvard asked Americans to locate Ukraine on a world map.  One in six got it right.  But, here’s the catchy part.  The further off they were to it’s location on a map, the more likely they were to want to invade it.

Two people thought it was in Memphis.  I can understand that.  I’ve been that drunk in Memphis before.  Iceland?  Seriously?

… the further our respondents thought that Ukraine was from its actual location, the more they wanted the U.S. to intervene militarily. Even controlling for a series of demographic characteristics and participants’ general foreign policy attitudes, we found that the less accurate our participants were, the more they wanted the U.S. to use force …

That’s kinda the way it always is, ain’t it?

Thanks to Larry for the heads up.