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In reply to the discussion: Majority of liberals support US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria [View all]KurtNYC
(14,549 posts)They sell this thing the way corporations sell a new smart phone -- with a list of new features and "solutions" that improve on the old one:
- "No Boots on the Ground"
- 'arm the good terrorists to fight the bad terrorists'
- 'get the guys who beheaded Americans;
They tweak the sale pitch slightly for different audiences. For liberals they have thrown in these war features:
- kill the ISIS guys who are abusive toward women
- solve humanitarian crisis through more bombing
- "ISIS banned the teaching of evolution" (which wasn't taught anyway)
Then they take polls like the one in the OP which ask about a fantasy version of war. So, to me, the answers to these poll questions say more about how sold various groups are on the fantasy version of this conflict than how people would/do feel about the actual situation in Syria/Iraq.