After Paris, Americans want US to do more to attack Islamic State
November 17, 2015 01:43
A majority of Americans want the United States to intensify its assault on the Islamic State following the Paris attacks, but most remain opposed to sending troops to Iraq or Syria, where the militant group is based, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
That view runs counter to comments by some 2016 Republican presidential candidates like former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, who called on Monday for more US "troops on the ground" in the region. Americans, weary after years of prolonged conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan, appear reluctant to become embroiled in another war even as they push for more action.
The poll -- conducted over the weekend after the suicide bomb and shootings in Paris -- found that 63 percent of Americans were fearful that a Paris-style attack could happen near them, suggesting that national security could emerge as a dominant theme in the 2016 race for the White House.
Americans are more fearful now than they were in the immediate aftermath of the bombing of the Boston Marathon in 2013, even though the latter took place on US soil, the poll showed.
In Friday's attacks, gunmen struck a concert hall, bars, restaurants and a soccer stadium, killing about 130 people.
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