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What Are the Biggest Factors Determining Whether...
What Are the Biggest Factors Determining Whether Americans Support War?
Last week my colleague Garance Franke-Ruta explored why Americans have gradually become less eager to engage in foreign conflicts since 9/11, including factors like reduced optimism for the Arab Spring and less outrage over chemical weapons.
But beyond this surprising turnaround in American sentiment, the Syria issue has created some unusual bedfellows: staunch libertarians and anti-war Democrats; the French and the U.S.; the Turks and the Kurds.
Indeed, Iraq-era alliances and partisan views on intervention don’t seem to apply anymore. So what makes both ordinary Americans and lawmakers support military action these days?
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