Support for the President’s approach has been slowly sinking since the U.S. formed a coalition in late 2014 to take on the head-chopping Islamic fanatics who have taken over large swaths of Iraq and Syria.

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS – November 5, 2015– President Obama’s strategy for taking on the Islamic State is not getting much traction with voters.
Six in 10 Americans now reject Obama’s handling of the ISIS crisis, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.
The poll of 1,027 adults was conducted before Obama’s announcement last week that he was dispatching 50 special operations troops to northern Syria to help Kurdish rebels — the first time the U.S. has put boots on the ground in the civil war-torn country.
And pollsters did not ask specifically if they favor sending U.S. troops into Syria — and back into Iraq — to take on ISIS.
There was no immediate response from the White House to the latest poll numbers. But Obama opposed the deeply unpopular Iraq War, which ousted Saddam Hussein but enabled radical groups like ISIS to fill the power vacuum.
Obama has also been reluctant to commit U.S. troops into another Middle Eastern adventure.
 
But Republicans — who were gung ho about invading Iraq — have harshly criticized Obama for failing to come up with a successful way of wipe out ISIS.
The President’s approach in Afghanistan, where he abruptly dropped plans last month to pull out all U.S. troops by the end of 2016, also gets mixed reviews from Americans.
About a third say they approve of Obama’s new plan to keep at least 5,500 troops there when he leaves office to prop-up Afghan security forces — and keep the country from falling back into the hands of the Taliban after 14 years of war.
A third oppose the new plan. And another third are on the fence, pollsters found.
But most of the people polled think the Afghan war, which former President George W. Bush launched after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to root out Al Qaeda, has been a bust.
Only one in five say the Afghans will be able to keep a democratic government going after U.S. forces leave. And 71 percent said they believe history will judge the Afghan war as a failure.