A new poll from Gallup shows that a majority of Americans, 58%, are in favor of attacking North Korea militarily if the US “cannot accomplish its goals by more peaceful means first.” Americans were split more or less evenly on whether sanctions and diplomacy could work.
This is the first time Gallup has asked about attacking North Korea since 2003. At the time, only 47% favored an attack. The shift in the last 14 years appears to have been greatly along political lines, with an overwhelming 82% of Republicans now backing war, compared to just 37% of Democrats.
The possibility of such an attack has been discussed a lot more this year than any time in decades. Repeated North Korean tests have been presented as a growing threat to the US mainland, with the Trump Administration declaring diplomacy a failure from the start.
Despite so much talk of imminent war, and a shift toward support for military aggression, the poll also showed a majority of Americans don’t think a US attack will be happening in the next six months, suggesting that most believe something short of war is going to be given considerable additional time.
Perhaps Gallop should have asked the interviewees how many millions of Americans they are prepared to see die to “disarm” North Korea. The days when the United States could go to war secure behind the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are gone.
I wonder if the results would be different if Americans knew that today North Korea could likely explode a nuclear bomb in the atmosphere above our country. Scientists say that such an explosion would create an electro-magnetic pulse (EMP) that would fry most electronics and return us the equivalent of the Stone Age.
I wonder if they know that every nuclear power can do that.
It proves again that political adherents of the liberal interventionist/neocon warmonger stripe, only like wars when their party is in the White House.
The only thing the poll “proves” is that 58% of those polled are either willfully uninformed about the consequences of a nuclear exchange and the long range consequences or just don’t care or they believe that Donald and his coterie of former generals will protect them from retaliation – direct and indirect. Both are scary scenarios and indicate a high level of ignorance.
This is why I think that study showing casualty rates in three swing states as the reason Trump won to be bulls**t. Americans are pro war. Plain and simple.
A majority of Americans don’t know shi%!!! These “polls” are always set up to show “support” for a certain agenda. If Americans all knew the FACTS about Iran they would condemn how Iran gets treated by the USA and Israel! That would be an accurate poll, based on facts and not on media propaganda. The USA is once again showing the whole world who the REAL troublemaker is, and it certainly isn’t Iran or Russia or Afghanistan or North Korea or …… !!!! The real problem resides in DC and Tel Aviv!
A small fraction would be pro war if facts were known.
The result of this poll is totally consistent with the thesis of Von Clausewitz that nations will try to get by war what they cannot achieve diplomatically.
I’m sure Gallup asked the question in a manner crafted to get the answer that they wanted to deliver to the American people, and to the government, that gallop continues in its roll as loyal servants to the war-mongering establishment. “Looky looky America, all your fellow citizens agree that we need to start another profitable-for-all-the-usual-suspects war. So let’s get it on, America!” This is the same sort of polling that took place before the last election: completely corrupt, utterly phony, total Fakenews morewar propaganda.
You can fool some of the people all of the time.
Soon America will have its troops spread so far and so thin across the world it should be possible to pin them all down in a Global Tet Offensive. It’s armies, naval fleets and air arms unable to resupply or reinforce each other would wear them down through attrition until supplies ran out and morale collapsed.
It’s not easy to guess where a global war might start or end but the US won’t stop until its military is crushed and its politicians dragged from their bunkers.
This is what is happening already. Incidents involving ships, high suicide rates for
special ops, hundreds od bases and baselettes in places of no real value to US security. But are padding the wallets of the exceptionally smart, at the expense if us, the stupid. People believe mainstream press, and do not understand the issue. And mainstream press, obedient to perfection, always shills for wars — any war wiuld do.They just feel the pulse of the public, and if needed, more convincing — they will shill some more. Until we learn and pass Gallup test.
But remarkably, no attention is paid to the other intelligence test
The test of Notth Korean missiles flying over Japan. Not once, twice. Either Japan and US do not believe a word of their own hype of the dangers from North, or the anti-missile defence is non -existent, even a cheap one. At least the second one should have been shot down. South Korea is vulnerable to ordinary artillery.
And what US population does not know about sanctions game is astounding.
Every time in the past an agreement is reached and signed with North Korea, after only a few months US complains about compliance, using as an example something that was NOT part of the agreement. North Korea then stops compliance, and cycle starts anew, this time with new demands added. Wgen agreed and signed, few months down the toad, new, never mentioned before conditions are added. So, to the public it looks like we are the victim, doing our best, and North kirea impossible to negotiate with peacefully. All that to insure over time that the country is weakened and ready for regime change, which means sweet income to all the contractors in military supplies, corporate nanagement of various civil society organizations, fake development, even faker human rights missionaries. And our money flows and flowes. Money is still flowing into Balkans, decades after the wars of secession. Because we do not call things by their right name, instead of accepting the peace and results, we keep on poking and proding, hoping for more conflict, identifying “.guity” ones, supporting designated “angelic” victims.
In perpetuity.
With OUR money.
In the name of OUR defense.
Somehow, I am not sure that our cities are defended. Or real, integrated defence thought through. All talk, big words, playing empire. No adults.
Sad, how us Americans are so ignorant. They say they favor of attacking North Korea militarily if the US “cannot accomplish its goals by more peaceful means first.” WTF does that mean. If NK had attacked us physically, then yes I am in agreement with these ignorant Americans. But, if NK hasn’t attacked us then heck no and especially if it is because the U.S. cannot accomplish its goals by more peaceful means first. Such lazy thinking. Actually NK by having these NUKES and capabilities has kept the peace for these blood thirsty belligerents in DC would have already obliterated NK by now for disobeying their edicts. The problem is these ignorant Americans have been too use to watching us warmong on much weaker nations via the comfort of their tv screens and don’t realize that this formula is not going to work against NK.
from the same brain dead morons that promised you that trump couldn’t win the election.. how many times do you have to be lied to, until you ignore the liars and anything they have to say on any subject?
Not a promise. He had the odds against him.
I’ll bet if you asked some different question like “Should the US have troops in Syria” you’ll find a majority of Democrats support and a majority of Republicans are against.
Nowadays there is a substantial voting group named independents. Why do you ignore them?
There are quite a few people who CALL themselves “independents.” And almost all of them turn out to actually be Republicans or Democrats when they actually go into the voting booths.
Right. I actually think most people claim to be independent.
That’s just nonsense. The republicans are in the majority in congress and the moron in chief is a republican. Should be easy to get us out of Syria completely.
Who did they poll, Congress?
This is insane.
Morality issues and whether it does a thing make this nation or the world safer, this will cost billions of dollars that could be used to make people’s lives better.
That fact that there is no discussion of the costs and implications of yet another war and the public is herded into a group think hatred is proof in my mind that we live in an Orwellian hell.
Down with Big Brother!
I wonder how many of those 82% would vote for war? If it was they who stood just minutes away from a North Korean response that would kill millions or more of them? The people of Soul do not agree with the war sentiment afflicting the US population. So unless the US is willing to kill off millions of their own. Stop trying to help. The people of Soul do not have an Iron Dome system in place like other US allies that receive 3 billion a year in defense aid.