War

Americans are overwhelmingly against US intervention in Syria.

"According to the Huffington Post poll, Americans oppose U.S. air strikes on Syria by 3-to-1. They oppose sending arms to the rebels by 4-to-1. They oppose putting U.S. ground troops into Syria by 14-to-1. Democrats, Republicans and independents are all against getting involved in that civil war that has produced 1.2 million refugees and 70,000 dead.
A CBS/New York Times poll found that by 62-to-24 Americans want to stay out of the Syrian war. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that by 61-to-10 Americans oppose any U.S. intervention."

Those are impressive numbers, and they explain why Obama resists increasing intervention.

"But the numbers shift when the public is asked if it would make a difference if the Syrian regime used poison gas. In that case, opposition to U.S. intervention drops to 44-to-27 in Reuters/Ipsos."

No wonder the warmongers work so hard to convince Americans that Assad used chemical weapons.

"“Syrian Rebels May Have Used Sarin Gas,” ran the headline in Monday’s New York Times."

It's hit the mainstream. About time.

Before the US invaded Iraq, it had one of the best educated populations in the Middle East. Not any more.

"A few days earlier in Iraq, however, at the end of a brutal month where “hard” meant more than 700 people dying in one month, many of them children, a London-based international aid group pointed out in a new comprehensive report that less than half of Iraqi children ages 12 to 17 even go to school any more. Frankly, for them, a “School Day” would be the treat, not the other way around."

This is why they hate us.