Americans, Europeans oppose Syria intervention: poll | Reuters
Americans, Europeans oppose Syria intervention: poll
By Adrian Croft
BRUSSELS | Wed Sep 18, 2013 8:07am EDT
(Reuters) - A majority of Europeans and Americans strongly oppose their countries intervening militarily in Syria's 30-month-old civil war, according to a transatlantic poll published on Wednesday.
"Transatlantic Trends", an annual survey of public opinion in the United States and Europe, also found that China's image in both continents was deteriorating and most Europeans did not want to see Beijing take strong leadership in world affairs.
The survey, by the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a U.S. think tank that promotes cooperation between North America and Europe, and the Compagnia di San Paolo, an
Italy-based private foundation, measured public opinion in 11 European Union countries, Turkey and the United States.
The poll found
62 percent of Americans and 72 percent of Europeans believed their countries should avoid military intervention in Syria's civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people.
Only 30 percent of Americans and 22 percent of Europeans felt their countries should intervene in
Syria.
Despite all the war hysteria - the majority still insist,
JUST SAY NO.