WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — Slightly more than half of all Americans disapprove of the United States sending ground troops to combat the Islamic State amid the intensifying US air campaign against the terrorist group, a new Gallup poll revealed on Thursday.
"As the US intensifies its airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, Americans are more likely to oppose (53 percent) than support (43 percent) sending US ground troops to these countries to help groups there fight the militants," Gallup said.
The number of Americans opposing ground troops has not differed since September 2014, when President Barack Obama began airstrikes against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups, according to Gallup.
"The fairly low level of Americans' support for deploying ground troops could be related to their reluctance to engage in another major military commitment in Iraq, or elsewhere for that matter," the poll concluded.
On Thursday, the US-led coalition against the Islamic State launched 48 airstrikes on the terrorists’ targets in Iraq and Syria.
