Most Americans don´t have a clue what all those wars here and there are about (well apart from god, country and democracy of course), are always eager to have the troops fight though.
Decades of brainwashing by the CNN and MSNBC is having its effect. There was a recent survey among the Americans, checking their opinion on Ukraine. Most of the respondents wanted American troops to be stationed in Ukraine, to fight the pro-Russians. But very few could tell the exact location of Ukraine. For a large number of people, Ukraine was located somewhere in North America.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/04/07/the-less-americans-know-about-ukraines-location-the-more-they-want-u-s-to-intervene/
It's really hard to look at the location of some of these dots and think that the respondent wasn't trolling. Or else we have to conclude there are a troubling number of people who don't know how maps work and put Ukraine in the middle of the ocean.
