Americans mostly oppose direct U.S. military action to help the Iraqi government fight Islamic militants threatening to take control of that country. A June 20-21 Gallup poll finds 54% of Americans opposed to and 39% in favor of taking such action, lower than the level of support for other potential […] Read more »
Fewer Support Iraq Withdrawal Decision Now vs. 2011
More than three if five Americans (61%) still support President Barack Obama’s 2011 decision to remove nearly all U.S. troops from Iraq — a move that congressional critics and former Bush administration officials have heavily scrutinized as Iraq falls into crisis. However, public support for the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq […] Read more »
Not Worth It: Huge Majority Regret Iraq War
A divided nation finally agrees on something overwhelmingly: the war in Iraq was simply not worth fighting. Seventy-one percent of Americans now say that the war in Iraq “wasn’t worth it,” a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll shows, with skepticism about the lengthy war effort up substantially even in […] Read more »
Americans Break With ‘Pottery Barn Rule’ for Iraq
Americans are ready to be done with the “Pottery Barn rule” in Iraq. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News/Annenberg survey found a plurality of Americans – 49% — say Washington does not have any responsibility to assist the Iraqi government fend off the insurgent groups seeking its overthrow, a split […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters say Obama ‘disengaged,’ US losing its standing
A majority of voters describes President Obama’s leadership as “disengaged,” and almost all continue to believe the nation’s reputation is declining, according to the latest Fox News poll. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »
Is this Obama’s ‘malaise’ moment?
Malaise is back. President Barack Obama’s situation is getting perilously close to President Jimmy Carter’s in 1979. … Americans become deeply disturbed if they see events spinning out of control and their elected leaders incapable of managing them. That was the perception that doomed Carter. It is now becoming a […] Read more »