Polling the Obama Doctrine

A poll on the public's reaction to President Obama's Nobel Prize speech.

Rasmussen digs beneath the president's Nobel speech:

Fifty percent (50%) of U.S. voters agree with President Obama that Afghanistan is a "just" war.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 24% disagree with the president’s declaration about Afghanistan in his speech accepting the Nobel Peace Prize last week. Another 27% are undecided.

Similarly, 52% think the president was right when he said, “The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it.” Twenty percent (20%) take issue with Obama’s remark, but 29% are not sure if he’s right or not.

Surprising how many people are undecided about the justness of the Afghan war. No matter where you sit on the questions of tactics, it seems obvious to me that war was and is justified, even if the strategy the administration settled on may not be the optimal one.

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