Americans are beginning to sound the call for a war on ISIS — unhappy both with President Barack Obama’s response to the radical Islamic terrorists’ attacks in Paris and his strategy to defeat them, new polls show.
In one Rasmussen Reports survey released Monday, 49 percent think the nation should formally declare war on the Islamic State, 28 percent disagree, and a significant 23 percent are undecided as yet.
However, among voters who consider ISIS a “very serious” threat, 61 percent believe the United States to declare war, the survey finds.
Still, the survey finds only 25 percent of respondents think America should be taking the lead in a war against ISIS, with 65 percent saying the United States should be part of a broader coalition. Only 4 percent think we should leave the fight to others.
The margin of error of the poll is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
In another sign of Americans’ growing frustration over the nation’s response, a second Rasmussen survey released Monday finds just 36 percent of likely voters give Obama good or excellent marks for his reaction to the ISIS attacks on Nov. 13 in Paris that killed 130 innocents, while 45 percent rate the response as poor.
Source: Clyde Hughes and Cathy Burke, http://www.newsmax.com