Sunday, July 30, 2006

THE EXPERTS SPEAK

From today's New York Times:

...The latest New York Times/CBS News poll shows what one expert describes as a continuing "chasm" between the way Republicans and Democrats see the war. Three-fourths of the Republicans, for example, said the United States did the right thing in taking military action against Iraq, while just 24 percent of the Democrats did....

"The present divisions are quite without precedent," said Ole R. Holsti, a professor of political science at Duke University and the author of "Public Opinion and American Foreign Policy."...


Without precedent? Er, the Civil War? Or am I wrong about that?

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