Since Monday I've seen the % of the public who want action in Syria quoted at

[TalkingDog]

9% on Monday

25% on Wednesday

70% on Friday

And 80% today.

from various news sources.


That's quite a swing in popular opinion, don't'cha think? Which percentage do you belong to?

[morningfog]

1. The against column from before the polls began until Obama attacks.

[delrem]

2. I find it hard to believe such a swing.

If it's true, it's hopeless -- the 1% has total mind control over the US population.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. It depends on how it's asked

"Should the US become involved in Syria?"
"Should the US conduct very limited airstrikes in response to 1500 Syrians civilians being gassed?"
Etc.

[TalkingDog]

4. Oh I get the game of "how it's worded" I'm just amused at the parabolic trajectory of public opinion

Waiting to see how quickly he gets 127% support.

[reformist2]

5. So ridic. As if even 10% of the public is paying attention in August.

[KittyWampus]

6. how about you post links to these 4 different polls. Were they online polls at CNN? Pew Polls? What?

Otherwise, I call your OP a fabrication.

[MH1]

32. I'll second that request. nt

[KittyWampus]

7. NBC poll: Nearly 80 percent want congressional approval on Syria. Is that your 80%

NBC poll: Nearly 80 percent want congressional approval on Syria

[KittyWampus]

8. 50% of 700 say US should NOT take military action- yesterday NBC

Americans say they don't want the U.S. to strike Syria, but that they could support a limited action that did not risk the lives of American soldiers, according to recent polls.

In a new survey from NBC, 50 percent of 700 respondents said the U.S. should not take "military action" in Syria, while 42 percent said the U.S. should.

But opinions changed when participants were asked about airstrikes launched from U.S. ships, without involving ground troops or U.S. planes flying over Syria.

Asked their opinion about a mission "limited to airstrikes using cruise missiles launched from U.S. naval ships that were meant to destroy military units and infrastructure that have been used to carry out chemical attacks," 50 percent said they would support such an action, while 40 percent said they would not.

A full 79 percent, meanwhile, said President Obama should be required to gain approval from Congress for any kind of strike against Syria.

[gristy]

9. Ya got links to all that?

[TalkingDog]

13. 50 percent favor that kind of intervention (From Friday)

But the public is more supportive of military action when it's limited to launching cruise missiles from U.S. naval ships — 50 percent favor that kind of intervention, while 44 percent oppose i

t.

http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/30/20256971-nbc-poll-nearly-80-percent-want-congressional-approval-on-syria?lite

[TalkingDog]

15. Support for US Intervention in Syria at 9% - Reuters/Ipsos Poll (From Monday)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/08/26/1233954/-Support-for-US-Intervention-in-Syria-at-9-Reuters-Ipsos-Poll

[KittyWampus]

10. I just googled and didn't find a single source saying more than half would approve military action

[TalkingDog]

17. I said Action: that can mean intervention or military action.

The polls and the spin are all over the map. That's my only point.

[JaneyVee]

11. 1-People are learning more about the situation in Syria, and 2-This President

Is very trusted by the American people to do what is in our Nations best interest.

[delrem]

12. It isn't about the US, it's about Syria and international law.

A unilateral "punishment bombing" by the US is illegal.
The US has *no* moral authority after what it did in Iraq.
The US President *absolved* the previous admin of war crimes in Iraq, so has *no* moral authority whatsoever.

That's sad news, but it's true.

[JaneyVee]

16. Not illegal.

[delrem]

18. You have no right to make that decision unilaterally. Nor does Pres. Obama.

Quite frankly, I don't think you know what you're saying.

[JaneyVee]

23. R2P

[delrem]

26. So you advise the bombing of the USA?? Is that it?

Or do you think that the USA is somehow "special" and has the right to commit war crimes at will, and to police the world unilaterally as judge, jury, and executioner?

eta: R2P - "The authority to employ the last resort and intervene militarily rests solely with United Nations Security Council."

[JaneyVee]

33. Isn't the only thing stopping the UN Security Council from giving a go ahead

Russia and China? Otoh, I also believe in a congressional vote and an outcome from the UN inspectors.

[delrem]

34. The security council has yet to vote, and I doubt the US will bother asking for a vote.

Russia and China are a large part of the world. Do you think South American countries want to see another US war of conquest? I doubt they do.

A congressional vote doesn't give the US the right to bomb a country that hasn't attacked the US. That's why the security council matters, and why the US, being a rogue state that attacks countries at will, will avoid it.

[MNBrewer]

21. What legal fig leaf would you use to cover it?

[morningfog]

24. How would it be legal?

[sabrina 1]

14. I'm with the 91% and the British Parliament who oppose it.

[TalkingDog]

20. Amen

n/t

[gopiscrap]

27. I am also

[cherokeeprogressive]

29. Yeah, I didn't get polled again. Count me out. n/t

[BOG PERSON]

19. maybe if they broadcast more footage of dead babies into peoples houses

it will rouse us from our moral slumber

[reformist2]

25. What about the 'moral slumber' of the British, Germans, Brazilians, Indonesians?

This absurd notion that we're the policeman of the world is over. o-v-e-r.

[BOG PERSON]

30. i was being facetious

the media fixation on context-less images of death and devastation borders on the salacious

i'm honestly happy the american public hasnt yet been disoriented by the shaky cam coverage of syria - that and persistent international pressure are the only things that forced obama to pass the buck to congress

[libdem4life]

22. Perhaps it's because the media war drum is actually awakening the slumbering...

and that's a good thing !! War...what's it good for...absolutely nothing !!! It's their war, not ours. There is no case to be made when confronted with reality ... which the US masses got sooner rather than later.

[Agschmid]

28. I'd like links to these stats...

I feel as if they are not correct... I see in the comment above about 80% want approval?

[TalkingDog]

31. 80% want congress to decide. But it is being framed as: decide to take action.

All they are doing is drumming up support to stuff the pockets of Raytheon stockholders. Many of whom own things like TV and newspaper.