Americans, Britons, French, Turks Oppose War Against Syria

 

A new Pew poll shows that 70% of Americans oppose arming the Syrian "rebels". As the Washington Post notes:

Opposition in the Pew poll is actually higher than ever before in the two-year-old civil war. And that’s even as much of the poll was conducted after the White House announced Thursday that the Syrian government had crossed the "red line" and used chemical weapons.

 

But while the red line was significant to the White House, it doesn’t seem to have altered the perceptions of the American people.

(In fact, the weight of evidence shows that it was likely the rebels - not the Syrian government - which used chemical weapons. See this, this, this and this.)

 

Numerous other recent polls show that Americans on both sides of the aisle are opposed to war in Syria.

 

Likewise, the Herald Scotland reports:

 

Polls have consistently shown that the French people oppose arming the rebels. As do the Turks.

 

Public opposition won’t stop the war, of course. For example, the protests against the Iraq war were the largest protests in history. But the U.S. and its allies had reasons to invade, anyway.

 

And Americans were opposed to the "humanitarian" war in Libya… even before they learned that the U.S. and its allies had backed Al Qaeda to topple Gaddafi.

 

But we went in anyway.

 

Likewise, Syria has long been on the list of countries which "need" regime change… whether or not the people want it.