Washington (CNN)Americans see ISIS as a bigger threat to the United States than Iran, Russia, North Korea or China, according to a new CNN/ORC poll.
Overall, 68% say ISIS is a very serious threat, compared with just 39% who say so about Iran, 32% about North Korea, 25% on Russia and 18% on China. Nearly 9 in 10 see ISIS as at least a moderately serious threat.
The partisan divides that often drive public opinion around foreign policy issues are less prominent when Americans rate the threat from ISIS. Majorities across political and ideological lines say ISIS is a deeply serious threat to the U.S., including 68% of Democrats, 79% of Republicans and 63% of independents.
With active fighting against the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and the arrests Sunday of six Minneapolis men accused of trying to join ISIS, concerns about the threat posed by the group grow alongside worries that the military battle could spread. While a CNN/ORC Poll in March found the public remained mostly confident that the U.S. effort to combat ISIS would succeed, it also showed 79% of Americans were worried that the conflict would develop into a larger war that would spread throughout the region and to other parts of the world.
WNU Editor: I am not worried about Russia or China in the short or medium term .... but the Islamic State and Iran .... especially on the Islamic State .... we all should be concerned.
1 comment:
Do we really need anymore evidence that most Americans are ignorant, panicky dopes when it comes to anything beyond our shores?
ISIS is too busy trying (and failing and flailing) to carve out some space for the "caliphate" that they have no resources or ability to do anything outside of messo'potamia, let alone the western hemisphere.
Russia, on the other hand, has roughly 1500 nukes. ICBM's. SLBM's. MIRVS. MARVS. Now that is real threat. A wise person wouldn't poke the bear, but whoever accused the neocons and their ilk of being wise, intelligent or right about anything?
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