EcoIntersect – by Niall McCarthy
The Islamic State is seen as the gravest threat to the United States, according to a new poll from Gallup.
The group released its latest horror video at the weekend, showing the mass beheading of 21 Egyptian Copts in Libya. The gruesome images have suggested that Isis is expanding its reach into North Africa, far from its current battlegrounds and havens in Iraq and Syria. Egypt carried out airstrikes in response to the beheadings.
84 percent of people in the US consider the Islamic State and international terrorism in general the most critical threats to American security. Iran’s nuclear ambitions and North Korea’s military strength follow with 77 and 64 percent respectively. The conflict between Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels has strained relations between Washington and Moscow in recent months, but nevertheless, tensions with Russia are lower on Americans’ list of potential threats.
Percentage of people in the United States considering the following a critical/important threat.
So, truth be told, Americans are afraid of a group of terrorists that the U.S. created, organized, and funded. What more gullible, distracted, and hypnotized population exists in the world?
If true then the US is doomed.
I think it’s total propaganda BS.
Notice how low the Israel problem is rated?
Gimme a break
Our biggest threat is the dick heads in DC
Amen!
But to add to that,
The biggest threat to the US and the principals it was founded on and that many of us grew up believing in resides in GOVERNMENT!
We need government, but we need and desire REPRESENTIVE government,
Not this bastardized crap we have that is basicly a bunch of career theives and petty tyrants!
“WE” DO NOT NEED government. If YOU do, say that.
But this “WE’ crap can go away.
Americans view ISIS as their greatest threat? Who the hell is this author kidding?
Funny how the author doesn’t even bother to ask if people think the US government is a threat. Last time I checked they viewed the foreign insurgents occupying our government offices in DC as our greatest threat.
Our greatest threat is those BEHIND ISIS, not ISIS itself.
No-brainer, really.