Posted on 09/06/2014 10:08:13 PM PDT by GonzoII
The survey, by Opinium Research, found 60 per cent of people were in favour of taking action to deal with the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
Almost two thirds of the public would support some form of British military action against jihadist fighters in Iraq, an exclusive poll for The Telegraph suggests.
The survey, by Opinium Research, found 60 per cent of people were in favour of taking action to deal with the threat from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
The measures that people were prepared to support ranged from a hostage rescue mission by the SAS, to deploying soldiers on the ground inside both Iraq and Syria. Only 20 per cent would not support military action of any kind.
The survey also found that the public overwhelmingly approved of plans for tougher laws to deal with terrorism suspects in the UK and measures to prevent hundreds of British jihadists from returning home.
The poll was conducted to gauge opinion in the days after another Isil video emerged, believed to show a British attacker known as “Jihadi John” beheading the American journalist Steven Sotloff.
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So the little cowards wanted to cut and run from Iraq, but now the UK’s population wants to stop ISIS?
If those cowards had helped us out in Iraq more than what they did, there wouldn’t be an ISIS. You can put much of the blame on Congressional Democrats and Hussein Soetoro, yes, but the British had plenty of opportunities to compensate for American incompetence.
Reality is most (not just the Brits) suffer from mypoia & only get alarmed when the threat appears direct & too close for comfort.
I think all of Europe is waking up to the threat of these types of groups. I believe it’s due to the size of the area they’ve taken, the brazen and brutal nature of them, and the sense that many of these same criminals lived right down the street before they went to Syria.
Too late, and 60 percent indicates too few.
But they said that withdrawal was a solution to make terrorists stop bombing them. Hope they don’t wimp out at the first sign of domestic terror.
Are you calling the British forces who fought in Iraq cowards?.
No, but I am calling the British population at large cowardly, since IIRC the population at large never supported the Iraq War, and has always been unwilling to make the difficult choices needed to fight terrorism. Tony Blair was largely awful domestically, but at least he and the British Army were willing to make difficult choices. Americans in general may be cowardly now, but at least they were willing to make sacrifices at points during the War on Terror.
It isn’t cowardly to think a war the wrong thing.
I opposed the Iraq War.
I opposed it as I supported strong military action, and felt that Iraq 2003 was an unnecessary war taking focus and resources away from a necessary war in Afghanistan.
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