Poll: Majority Support Trump Syrian Strike, Including 83% of Trump Voters

[CostinR]

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...rikes-on-syria

About half of Americans support the Trump administration's decision last week to launch a missile strike on a Syrian air base, according to a new poll.

A HuffPost/YouGov survey finds 51 percent of Americans support the president's decision to order the airstrikes in retaliation for a chemical attack last week that killed civilians in northern Syrian.

Thirty-two percent of Americans are opposed to the strikes and 17 percent are uncertain.

Among Trump voters, 83 percent support the president's decision, while just 11 percent oppose it.

About 40 percent of Americans think the strikes were an appropriate response, compared to 25 percent who think they were too aggressive and 10 percent who think they were not aggressive enough.
Still, only about one-third of Americans though think the airstrikes will be even somewhat likely to deter the future use of chemical weapons.

Also a key point for those interested about how people view the role in Congress

Forty percent say Congress should have the final authority on such actions, while 35 percent say Trump should. (In 2013, a Pew Research survey found that, by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, Americans believed that Congress should have the final say over then-president Barack Obama.)

Let this put to rest some foolish idiotic nonsense that the US public isn't willing to back the president in military action if that action is sensical or reasonable. They will. Obama was a pathetic president who had no idea what he was doing.

Another thing to note is that despite what rags like PJW, Alex Jones, Mike Cernovich say they and their pack of fringe lunatics never have and never will represent anything close but a very small minority of Trump voters/supporters.

A point I want to make as a Trump supporter to other supporters: Trump is and will always be ideologically flexible, if you didn't catch that when he went through 3 campaign managers in the campaign you weren't paying attention. If you want ideological purity you should have backed Ted Cruz.

EDIT: Another Poll Came out

http://thehill.com/policy/internatio...-syria-strikes

Fifty-seven percent support the military operation in the CBS News survey out Monday, with that total calling the reported use of deadly gas by Syrian government forces “immoral.”

[Dangg]

Location: Romania

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[breadisfunny]

Location: Romania

what does that have to do with anything? nice ad hominem btw.

[Elba]

How was the attack on Syria sensical or reasonable?

And Americans supporting jingoism and strongmanship? I am shocked. Shocked I say.

[NED funded]

Of course it was a good decision.

[aviger]

Obama was a pathetic president who had no idea what he was doing

you simply loose all credibility when you say things like this. By any metric Obama knew what he was doing better than Trump simply due to his longer stint in politics.
Anything you say after that is just not worth reading

[Templar 331]

I wonder how many of those who support Trump's airstrike were opposed to Obama wanting to do the same thing years ago. >.>

[JohnBrown1917]

Nobody is surprised by the US acting like this.

Location: Romania

He is on of MMO-Cs bigger Trump supporters.. somehow.

[Templar 331]

Obama was a pathetic president who had no idea what he was doing.

You mean by going through the proper channels when attacking a sovereign nation, i.e. Congress?

[Zandalarian Paladin]

Possibly the first thing I can get behind and support from Trump. Clever move, which show the weight of the US military, yet without resorting to killing.

[announced]

How was the attack on Syria sensical or reasonable?

And Americans supporting jingoism and strongmanship? I am shocked. Shocked I say.

how wasn't it? if the Intel reports were correct and there were gas containers at that air base then launching a missile strike at their air base makes perfect sense. They also tried to warn everyone to evacuate the air base before bombing it and there were very few causalities. 0 would have been the best number, but you cant always obtain that goal in war.

this is way better than the Yemen raid or any of the other previous bombing runs that killed hundreds of civilians.

[Darththeo]

51% in a poll of 1,000 with an error of almost 4% ... I wouldn't say he truly has majority support.

Funny how polls matter only when they favor Trump.

[Elba]

how wasn't it?

Because Syria is a sovereign nation that is not at war with the USA? Why bomb them in the first place?

[Darththeo]

how wasn't it? if the Intel reports were correct and there were gas containers at that air base then launching a missile strike at their air base makes perfect sense. They also tried to warn everyone to evacuate the air base before bombing it and there were very few causalities. 0 would have been the best number, but you cant always obtain that goal in war.

this is way better than the Yemen raid or any of the other previous bombing runs that killed hundreds of civilians.

Because just a little while ago those supporting this action were opposing action in Syria?

[Independent voter]

Most of Congress backs Trump too, they'll have to rubber stamp the attack at some point.

[Manabomb]

Any act of war should be up to congress to decide. This reality that a single person has the capacity and capability to end a thousand lives in an single order is ludicrous.

And the reality? President Obama was bashed and mocked for every military action he took by right wing media and by relation, the voters and followers of right wing politics. To that point, of course military action taken by the military parties "leader" is going to be praised. They think the way they operate the military is more nuanced and professional than Obama, even though they had a 10 year pointless war and now a series missile barrages under their belt.

[Elegiac]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of Trump's selling points being the 'anti-war' candidate?

[Manabomb]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of Trump's selling points being the 'anti-war' candidate?

You're not wrong. The problem is Trump's opinion has shifted and so has the collective opinion of his following because they are of course justified in their own actions.

Remember, America first and clearly Syria second ;rolls eyes;

[Sky High]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't one of Trump's selling points being the 'anti-war' candidate?

well if you believed his rhetoric it was all over the place, but he was pretty consistent on not getting involved in Syria. but now the neocons are in charge so.... this is where we are.

[Elegiac]

well if you believed his rhetoric it was all over the place, but he was pretty consistent on not getting involved in Syria. but now the neocons are in charge so.... this is where we are.

Impossible; neoconservatives are upright pillars of morality that could never be hypocritical or lie. /s