Americans are uncertain that recent U.S. military interventions and overseas commitments have achieved positive results for the country, one of a range of findings in a new survey sponsored by the Charles Koch Institute and RealClearPolitics. The poll, conducted late last month, sampled two groups: the general population and current and former military service members.
While 71 percent of all those polled agree that the threat of terrorism has increased over the last two decades, pluralities of both groups -- 41 percent of military/veterans and 43 percent of the general population -- believe that U.S. intervention has rendered the country less secure. Forty percent of each group also say that it has had the same negative effect on the international community.
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WNU Editor: Only 41% - 43%? What's more revealing is that military/veterans (61 percent) are weary of American intervention abroad. The complete poll is here.
2 comments:
We won Iraq and the Obama gave it to the Iranians.
What did we win? Iraq was a nascent democracy and therefore probably would be friendly.
Now Iraq has the trappings of a democracy, but it is a country by the Shia, for the Shia and only for the Shia.
Thx Obama!
Blood, treasure for nothing!
Thx Obama!
That's let a mixed feeling. The reality is this fight is militarily AND ideology. As long as we let the ideology aside there is no point to see the end of this war on terror.
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