Bipartisan Support for Obama’s Military Campaign Against ISIS from the Pew Research Center
"Dems Concerned about ‘Going Too Far,’ Reps ‘Not Far Enough’."
Now, let's be clear: if you were to listen to the pundit class and the neo-con/liberal interventionist blatherers that have been flooding the media in the last two months, you would have thought that Obama was in some la-la kookoo land of his own when it came to his approach to ISIS (and Syria and Iran and others). However, as this item suggests (and as I have long believed) Obama is not alone. The great majority of the American people are with him on this! Many don't like ANY of the choices we are faced with in the international realm -- but Obama's caution and limited engagement strikes a difficult and carefully calibrated response that matches up with the American people's mood. Consider where we would be if John McCain and his ilk were now in charge? (1) We would still have substantial forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and sustaining and inflicting the casualties that we had for the last 12 years; (2) we would be deeply involved in (let's count them) Syria, Lybia, Egypt (on Mubarek's side no less) and Ukraine; and (3) we would be at war with Iran over their nuclear program!
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