What do Americans think of the Iraq Study Group’s plan? According to a World Public Opinion.org survey, 75 percent agree that the US must engage in talks with Iran and Syria to find a solution for the growing violence in Iraq. And, a majority of Americans clearly are ready to set a timetable to bring US forces home. The WPO survey conducted late last month, predated the Dec. 6 release of the ISG report, but the central ISG
tenets had been widely discussed. Steven Kull, editor of WPO.org and director of the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, said that the results indicate “there is potential for finding some bipartisan consensus on the next steps for the US to take in Iraq.”
Happy Birthday US Air Force: 78 Today
Sept. 18, 2025
Seventy-eight years ago today, on Sept. 18, 1947, Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson swore in Stuart Symington as the first ever Secretary of the Air Force, and the Air Force officially became the first new military service since the Revolutionary War.