Israel Matzav

Obama may not get it, but the American people sure do

President Obama may not understand what a nuclear Iran would mean to the American way of life, but the American people sure do. Bloomberg reports that an overwhelming majority of the American people favor military action against Iran to prevent the Islamist Caliphate from going nuclear.

A Pew Research Center for the People & the Press survey released today found 61 percent of Americans would support a military strike. Twenty-four percent said it is more important to avoid conflict even if that means Iran will end up building nuclear arms.

The survey by the Washington-based group found 63 percent support direct U.S. negotiations with Iran to push the country to abandon its nuclear program. Still, 64 percent said such efforts won’t succeed. The poll was conducted last week, when Iran held talks with the U.S. and other United Nations powers and agreed to widen discussions on the nuclear dispute.

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In the Pew survey, while 78 percent said they would approve of tougher economic sanctions on Iran, 56 percent said they didn’t expect the measures would persuade Iran to drop its nuclear program. The poll was conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults, with an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Poor Barack. You can't fool all of the people all of the time. The problem is that the American people don't control the guns.

What could go wrong?

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:56 PM