Do Wars Make Us Safer? The People Aren’t Feeling It
Do Wars Make Us Safer? The People Aren’t Feeling It
By David Swanson
Oct 28 2016
This piece originally appeared at Let’s Try Democracy (10/27/16).
A new poll from an unlikely source suggests that the US public and the US media have very little in common when it comes to matters of war and peace.
This poll was commissioned by that notorious left-wing hotbed of peaceniks, the Charles Koch Institute, along with the Center for the National Interest (previously the Nixon Center, and before that the humorously named Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom). The poll was conducted by Survey Sampling International.
They polled 1,000 registered voters from across the US and across the political spectrum, but slanted slightly toward older age groups. They asked:
Over the last 15 years, do you think US foreign policy has made Americans more or less safe?
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http://fair.org/home/do-wars-make-us-safer-the-people-arent-feeling-it/
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