It worked
by digby
The hysterical pearl clutching of the panic artists like Lindsay Graham and his helpmates in the media has succeeded:
Americans are increasingly concerned that ISIS represents a direct terror threat, fearful that ISIS agents are living in the United States, according to a new CNN/ORC International poll. Most now support military action against the terrorist group.
Seven in 10 Americans believe ISIS has the resources to launch an attack against the United States, just days before President Barack Obama plans to address the nation on the subject.
The poll released Monday shows that Americans favor:
-- Additional airstrikes against ISIS (76% favor, 23% oppose)
-- Military aid to forces fighting ISIS (62% favor, 37% oppose)
-- Providing humanitarian aid to people fleeing ISIS (83% favor, 16% oppose)
They do not favor boots on the ground though although I don't know why. If these monsters are here in der Homeland plotting to invade Dubuque you'd think Americans would want the government to pull out all the stops. But I guess they figure we can use our "superpowers" to defeat the crazed terrorists over there so they won't deploy their evil plots here without having to lose any soldiers. We just have to use our best secret laser beam technology to "take out" the bad guys without risking the lives of anyone important. We can do that. We're that good.
We Americans don't go by "keep calm and carry on" or even "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." Our credo is:
"ohmygodbombsomethingnowtheyarecomingtokillusallinourbeds!"
Very impressive.
In case you were wondering, the actual experts are saying something quite different from the Chicken Littles:
There is no specific or credible threat of an ISIS terror attack on the US.
"No, we don't have any information about credible planning for an attack"
“At this point, we have no credible information that ISIS is planning to attack the United States,”
While there's no credible threat to the U.S. as a result of recent American airstrikes in Iraq, officials remain concerned that Islamic State supporters could attack overseas targets with little warning.
Update: Via twitter, Tom Tomorrow reminds us of this one:
