[Heather21464]

I wanted to clarify that your 94 percent number may be (must be) a little skewed. I’m not sure where you got it, but I have seen polls on CNN.com and other places, and I see very surprising (to me) results as far as the votes go. I wouldn’t trust those numbers, and I don’t. On CNN.com and other places, you do not get a representative sample of the population. You just get a sample of who was on-line that day and felt like voting. Also, I’ve noticed the questions on the news sites are asked occasionally in a manner that puts a value-judgment on the answer, rather than allowing a simple yes or no. So even if I felt that my answer was ‘no,’ the ‘because’ statement doesn’t fit, so I choose ‘yes,’ or something to that effect. There are Americans who are for this retaliation, or whatever you want to call it. There are also many who don’t believe it’s the right solution. There are many angry, scared, confused, grieving people in the United States and in other countries, and I think that causes some knee-jerk reactions to the deaths of so many people in one day. On one hand, I agreed that some sort of immediate reaction by our government was/is necessary. On the other hand, I believe that more understanding of the situation and the consequences by the general population of any military actions is needed before such actions take place. My opinion is that much of the knee-jerk reaction of the desire for retaliation wouldn’t have been so strong had people really stopped to think about the consequences. Hope that helps in your understanding of at least one American’s thoughts on the subject.

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Name : Heather21464, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 26, City : Cincinnati, State : OH, Country : United States, Occupation : Engineer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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