The Jerusalem Post reports:
Sixty-three percent of Americans say that if diplomacy fails to solve the Iranian nuclear crisis, they would approve of an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, a new poll has found.
The poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies and Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research and commissioned by The Israel Project, also finds that 87% of US voters feel that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a threat to the US.
Meanwhile, 80% of Americans said it was likely Iran would use nuclear weapons if it acquired them.
The threat of Iran is apparently felt across the political spectrum, with 85% of Democrats and 97% of Republicans believing the Islamic Republic represents a serious threat to the US.
However, 62% of those polled also felt that it was still possible to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
The approval rate for American military action against Iran was lower than that of an Israeli operation, with 55% supporting targeted strikes by the US and its allies.
(Via Hot Air.)
It’s good to see some good sense in the American public. It is a little dismaying to see the difference in support between an Israeli action and a U.S. action — apparently some people see the threat but want Israel to do the dirty work for us — but there’s still a majority without them.
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How gullible and mislead the American public STILL is. Absolutely astounds me that they can have the wool pulled over them so easily. Didn’t we learn anything from invading Iraq? No. We still believe what the government tells us as far as these situations lead us. Even when the administration came out in December and told us that the threat really didn’t exist for Iran’s capability to produce nuclear weapons, we still go along for the ride. We’re playing right into their hands again, and I fear this time, it will be a HUGE mistake to allow this to continue.
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The media is telling us clearly that Iran is no threat to us, but the public doesn’t agree. Disagree if you like, but it’s hard to label skepticism as gullibility. Also, despite the media spin, the NIE didn’t say there was no threat.