64% Of Americans Want Military Action To Stop Iran

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33. March '03 Pew Poll showed 72% in favor of military action in Iraq. Ten years later, that had fallen

to 41%. See, http://www.pewresearch.org/2008/03/19/public-attitudes-toward-the-war-in-iraq-20032008/, and http://www.people-press.org/2013/03/18/a-decade-later-iraq-war-divides-the-public/

Apparently, 40% of the American people, according to Pew, continue to support almost any war we get ourselves into. But, the reality of protracted, costly wars tends to drive down support to that base level. Most come to realize that whatever initial enthusiasm they had for these "optional wars" was hysterical fears driven by a media environment of lies and propaganda.

War with Iran will end up being similarly unpopular. Support for that is at least ten points lower than it was for military action against Iraq a decade ago. Probably, real support for military conflict with Iran is considerably less, and will drop dramatically once the much more terrible costs of such a war starts to set in.