Americans’ Opposition for Military Strike Grows: 63% against War on Syria

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Americans' opposition to a US military strike against Syria is increasing.
In this context, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll shows the challenge President Barack Obama faces in seeking congressional approval for military action.

The poll, conducted September 5 to 9, indicated that 63 percent of Americans opposed intervening in Syria, up from 53 percent in a survey that ended August 30. That was a week after the August 21 alleged chemical attack in a Damascus suburb.

Meanwhile, support for a US intervention in Syria has declined, the poll found. About 16 percent of Americans surveyed said the United States should get involved - down from 20 percent on August 30.
According to the poll, "even if it's proven that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons against fellow Syrians, only 26 percent of Americans said the United States should intervene."

About 52 percent said the US military should not get involved in such a circumstance, up from 44 percent on August 30.
The poll's findings represent the latest evidence of Americans' reluctance to get involved in another military action after more than a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Ipsos pollster Julia Clark said the poll suggests that "the American public has very little appetite for intervention of any kind, anywhere."

The Reuters/Ipsos poll surveyed 1,450 Americans. Its credibility interval, similar to a margin of error, was 2.9 percentage points for each answer.
For its part, a new national survey showed that Obama is swimming against a strong tide of public opinion that doesn't want the United States to get involved.
The CNN/ORC International poll released on Monday showed that a strong majority of Americans doesn't want Congress to pass a resolution authorizing a military strike against it.

More than 7 in 10 say such a strike would not achieve significant goals for the United States and a similar amount say it's not in the national interest for the country to get involved in Syria's civil war.

Source: Reuters/ CNN, Edited by website team