If North Korea were to attack South Korea, as increasingly seems to be a possibility with the recent threats and actions of North Korean leaders, the majority of Americans (55%) say the United States should use its military forces to help defend the South, while 34% say the U.S. should […] Read more »
65% Support Drone Attacks on Terrorists Abroad
Nearly two-thirds of Americans (65%) think the U.S. government should use drones to launch airstrikes in other countries against suspected terrorists. Americans are, however, much less likely to say the U.S. should use drones to launch airstrikes in other countries against U.S. citizens living abroad who are suspected terrorists (41%); […] Read more »
Ten Years On: American Public Opinion on the War in Iraq
… The 2012 Chicago Council Survey found that the legacy of the war in Iraq (and Afghanistan) appears to be strongly shaping the American public’s views of international engagement. … The 2012 Chicago Council Survey, as well as long- term trends from ABC News/Washington Post, show a majority of Americans […] Read more »
Majority thinks U.S. should have stayed out of Iraq
Today marks 10 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq, and most Americans now say the U.S. should have avoided that conflict. Many Americans do not think the U.S. was successful in achieving its objectives there. Looking back, 54 percent of Americans think the U.S. should have stayed out of […] Read more »
59% say it was dumb to send troops to Iraq
Ten years after the start of the Iraq war, most Americans say the war was a mistake and that it was dumb to send U.S. troops into the conflict, according to a new national survey. And a CNN/ORC International poll released Tuesday also indicates that more than half of the […] Read more »
How We Learned to Set Aside Our Moral Qualms and Love the Bomb
Nuclear war is unthinkable. At least, that’s what we like to tell ourselves. Given the mass death and devastation from an atomic strike, surely only a desperate despot would even consider such a strike. Well, think again. A new study finds that, among the American public, the taboo against the […] Read more »