This is the lowest level in three years of likely U.S. voters who think we’re winning the “War on Terror,” but I am astonished that it is that high. After all, the “War on Terror” has been declared over at least three times (in 2012 and twice in 2009), so the Rasmussen Reports survey is rather like asking people if they think the U.S. is winning World War II. Also, since the Obama Administration has now “switched sides” in this erstwhile war and is now arming al Qaeda, what exactly constitutes “winning”? Would that be al Qaeda victories and advances, or advances of the cause of freedom? Would a victory in the “War on Terror” be the imposition of Sharia, or its rejection? If only the Great Leader in Washington would explain!
“War on Terror Update,” Rasmussen Reports, April 22 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):
Belief that America is winning the War on Terror and is safer than before the 9/11 terrorist attacks have fallen to their lowest levels in three years.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 35% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe the United States and its allies are winning the War on Terror. But that’s down from 39% in January and is the most pessimistic assessment since April 2011. Fifty percent (50%) felt America and its allies were winning a year ago.
Twenty-seven percent (27%) say the terrorists are winning the War on Terror, down from a recent high of 30% in January. Just as many (28%) say neither side is winning. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 17-18, 2014 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. See methodology.
John C. Barile says
All hail the Great Leader! First Libya, now Syria; next, Egypt —
thomas_h says
Americans may win war on terror, but still lose the war against Islam if they refuse acknowledging Islam is waging a war against them.
Had England fought a war against Luftwaffe it would have lost the war against Germany.
Mirren10 says
“Had England fought a war against Luftwaffe it would have lost the war against Germany”.
????
Sorry, thomas-h, England **did** fight a war against the Luftwaffe; it was called the Battle of the Britain.
thomas_h says
Right, it was battle not war.
War means identifying enemy in its totality and destroying his capacity to fight. England fought war against Germany in her skies, not Luftwaffe. Likewise, England fought Germany in Africa and in Atlantic, not Rommel and the nazi submarines. The RAF bombed and destroyed Germany so it may not feed and arm its Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe. England fought the war against Germany and battled the German military.
thomas_h says
I am sorry for this clumsy comment above. Writing hastily with one finger on an IPad is bound to produce such mess.
Anyway, what I wanted to say is that England fought many battles, including the legendary Battle of England, but only one war – the war against Germany. The war was won when and because Germany, not Luftwaffe, was destroyed. In principle the War could have been won even if the Luftwaffe had not been destroyed.
Mirren10 says
OK. I see what you mean, now !
Prinz Eugen says
Michael above has it correct — by joining Al Qaida and Iran and the Moslem Brotherhood, khalifa Barry went from ineffective warlord to leader of the holy terrorists! Long before and since gaining the WH, Barry Sotero has made it clear that he is on the side of the moslems. “The future must not belong to those who slander (my) prophet ….” and “Rspect it!”
The DNC has grown so socialist and anti-US, they no longer have any qualms about siding with any and all enemies of the USA.
mark says
If the present USA administration continues to give free passes and nods to Muslim extremists, I do not know how another 9/11 can be averted, even in the short term. Having such a man as Obama for commander-in-chief of the USA, so soon after what happened in 2001, is stranger than fiction. If a person wrote such a narrative, it would be classified, not only as fiction, but as fantasy fiction.
Geppetto says
It is quite likely that the majority of this 35% are Obama supporters and are among those now politely referred to as the “low information voter.” Do they know that there is a war on terror, where its being fought, who exactly is the enemy and who is defeating them?
If you’re only listening occasionally to the legacy media and more actively involved in social networking, interested in trivia about the daily scandals among prominent entertainment persona, engrossed in Internet and computer gaming and just indulging your every hedonistic habits and fantasies, how likely would you be aware of any of anything outside that opaque bubble.
onisac// says
Winning? Winning? Please define winning.
How should the American tax payers know who has won?
We don’t even know what we are fighting for. So then,
how do we know who has won what? The only way we
can win these battles is to define why we are fighting.
Victory is in the eyes of the beholder, who knows ‘why’,
‘what’, ‘who’, ‘when’ and ‘where’ the target is.
gravenimage says
Only 35% of Americans now think U.S. is winning War on Terror
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Could it be that some of my fellow Americans are starting to get a clue?
God, I hope so.