AP, Oct. 03, 2014 — Nearly two out of three Americans back U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria to combat the threat from Islamic extremists, yet half also think there’s a high risk of a future terrorist attack on American soil, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
About a third favors going beyond airstrikes and putting American military boots on the ground in Iraq or Syria.
Obama says he has no plans to send ground troops to Iraq or Syria.
Asked whether they favored, opposed or neither favored nor opposed the airstrikes, 65 percent said they favored the strikes in Syria, 64 percent in Iraq.