As President Obama backs away from last week’s diplomatic overtures from Iran, the latest CNN/ORC International Poll shows an overwhelming majority of Americans support direct talks with Iran.
The poll showed 76 percent support for diplomacy with 21 percent opposed, and strong majorities of both parties (87 percent of Democrats and 68 percent of Republicans) on the side of negotiations.
CNN Polling Director Keating Holland says the results aren’t nearly the shift you’d figure, noting that a 2009 version of the poll similarly showed overwhelming pro-diplomacy sentiment.
The polling wasn’t taken nearly so seriously in 2009, however, and direct talks never happened. After the American public forced the Obama Administration away from a war with Syria in the past month, however, there seems to be some recognition that the American public can change foreign policy, and in this case what they want is talks.
Its about time for USG to look deep, very deep into the mirror and look directly into the people's eyes and see themselves when they promised people, who voted and trusted them with deliverance of peace and closing Guantanamo?
In spite of the propaganda bombardment by the MSM? This is really amazing and very encouraging. I believe people have learned a very valuable lesson from the Syrian crisis.
Who do we haver to thank? Snowden, Wikileaks, the internet of course and other alternative media, the courageous anti war individuals who never gave up and many more.
Thanks
I agree the masses are finally starting to wake up. Hopefully Netanyahu will be the one who went too far. The greatest danger to the US and world peace is the Zionist state and it's backers . The assault on the USS Liberty should have been the wake up call.
However, the military industrial complex must also be put in it's place.
Count myself in with that 76%. It looks like the American people have grown tired of the Military Industrial Complex's need for constant war. Even though the US Government has (shut down), the MIC is still being funded. Bibi was also in the White House to make sure Israel would continue to receive (support) from the US taxpayers during the shutdown. Never mind the thousands of Americans looking at being furloughed while the GOP and Dems play games.
Now they are 76.000001% LOL
Popular interests of the 'subjects' and elite interests of the ruling-class are always diametrically opposed in all EMPIRES!
It doesn't take a rocket scientist or any half-baked political hack to see that Iran- not Saudi Arabia, not Qatar, not Israel- is our natural ally in the Middle East. They are very well situated geographically, and they have deep oil reserves, AND out of all the societies in the Middle East they better understand the West as a result of their albeit unfortunate experiences under the Shah. They are shrewd politicians and adept negotiators, and the US should take note of this and foster friendship with Iran and do ourselves a huge favor in the region for our efforts. Besides, Iran is THE big dog in the neighborhood, outside of Israel's nuclear capability- and it would be wise to have that on OUR side rather than arrayed against us in the region.