60% of Americans supported investing more in the military campaign against ISIS, with a slim majority favoring increased airstrikes. However, a clear majority opposed sending special forces or other ground troops to Iraq and Syria.
Asked whether the United States should dispatch special forces – something President Obama has already done, albeit on a very small scale – opposition stood at 65%. But that number increased further when asked whether the US should deploy regular ground troops, with a full 76% opposed…
And American consensus appears narrowly in favor of moves by some US states to block Syrian migrants from entering, with 52% saying they felt countries which accepted Syrians feeling the civil war in their home country were less safe as a result. That result appears to be at least in part a response to news that one or more of the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks were non-Europeans who had infiltrated the continent disguised as “refugees” – a nightmare scenario regularly warned of by opponents of the current lax immigration policies favored by most Western European countries.
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