Another poll shows that a majority of Americans favor the Iraq Study Group approach and believe the Administration’s international strategy has “diminished US security,” reports World Public Opinion.org. Developed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, the poll shows that more Americans believe the fear of US military force leads other countries to seek weapons of mass destruction. Survey respondents overwhelmingly place strategies of pre-emptive strike and regime change into the “bad” ideas category.
The Air Force wants to pump more than $12 billion over the next five years into its new affordable long-range missiles program and recently asked industry to push the flights of some of those munitions beyond 1,200 miles.