U.S. Majority Supports Striking Iran
Filed under: Iran ~ Russia
Pajamas Media links to a Zogby Poll which agrees with our prior poll here on Publius Pundit approving a military strike on Iran. Zogby states:
A majority of likely voters -- 52% -- would support a U.S. military strike to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, and 53% believe it is likely that the U.S. will be involved in a military strike against Iran before the next presidential election, a new Zogby America telephone poll shows. The survey results come at a time of increasing U.S. scrutiny of Iran. According to reports from the Associated Press, earlier this month Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice accused Iran of "lying" about the aim of its nuclear program and Vice President Dick Cheney has raised the prospect of "serious consequences" if the U.S. were to discover Iran was attempting to devolop a nuclear weapon. Last week, the Bush administration also announced new sanctions against Iran. Democrats (63%) are most likely to believe a U.S. military strike against Iran could take place in the relatively near future, but independents (51%) and Republicans (44%) are less likely to agree. Republicans, however, are much more likely to be supportive of a strike (71%), than Democrats (41%) or independents (44%). Younger likely voters are more likely than those who are older to say a strike is likely to happen before the election and women (58%) are more likely than men (48%) to say the same -- but there is little difference in support for a U.S. strike against Iran among these groups.
This is a remarkable demonstration of solidarity given the quagmire that Iraq has become, and flies in the face of the nattering nabobs of negativity who claim Americans don't support standing up against those who threaten them.
It's unfortunate, though, that lost in the shuffle is the need to deal with Russia, the nation that is enabling Iran's outrageous actions by supplying the rogue state with nuclear technology, a missile system to defend it (even while, outrageously, inveighing against the U.S. system proposed for Eastern Europe) and blocking economic sanctions in the U.N. Security Council.
Vladimir Putin's Russia is as much our enemy, and as much the enemy of democracy, as Iran.
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