Americans oppose war: But does govt care?

Dengan retorik keras Amerika Syarikat dan ketegangan di seluruh program nuklear Iran pendorong mengikut masa, pemilihan Amerika tetap menunjukkan bahawa kebanyakan rakyat Amerika berfikir perang dengan Tehran akan menjadi 1 kesilapan kubur (Garrah). Tetapi adakah pemimpin peduli?

Walaupun persetujuan Iran baru-baru ini untuk kembali ke rundingan alih kerja atom, pentadbiran Obama berkata perang dengan Tehran masih di atas meja. Lebih lebih keras kenyataan datang dari beberapa burung helang Washington seperti Newt Gingrich, yang bercakap melanggar rejim Iran dalam tempoh setahun. Walau bagaimanapun, panggilan muncul untuk mencari sokongan sedikit dengan rakyat biasa. Kaji selidik dalam talian dan telefon oleh salah 1 daripada pemilihan sahabat dalam talian di negara ini menunjukkan majoriti rakyat Amerika tidak kembali ceramah kerajaan perang terhadap Iran.

Penduduk-penduduk bandar di 1 American pergi lebih jauh dan mengambil perkara itu kepada Majlis Bandaraya mereka. Badan perundangan Charlottesville di Virginia meluluskan 1 resolusi, dipercayai untuk menjadi pertama di negara ini, membantah pelancaran perang ke atas Iran, serta menyeru untuk akhir ke tanah semasa (current ground) dan terlibat dalam peperangan berdengung oleh Amerika Syarikat. "Wasiat popular sentiasa menjadi menentang peperangan, kecuali ditolak dan ditarik oleh propaganda yang sangat manipulatif," David Swanson, penulis bersama resolusi kepada RT. "Dan mereka telah cuba - orang-orang yang mahu perang ke atas Iran - telah mencuba tetapi tidak berjaya selama bertahun-tahun untuk mendapatkan pesawat rakyat Amerika ".

Gayane Chichakyan RT pergi berjalan-jalan di Washington untuk melihat berapa ramai orang dia bertemu yang mahu Amerika Syarikat untuk menyerang Iran.

Hasilnya adalah hanya 1, daripada lebih daripada sedozen.

Dan ia bukan hanya rakyat Amerika Syarikat biasa, tetapi ramai pakar dalam bidang keselamatan, yang memberikan amaran tentang memulakan perang dengan Iran. Salah satunya ialah bekas pengarah yang bertindak CIA.

"Orang ramai selalu berkata bahawa pilihan ketenteraan masih di atas meja. Saya fikir ia akan menjadi pilihan yang sangat buruk . . . Salah satu masalah besar dengan Iran adalah bahawa jika anda masuk ke dalam konfrontasi terbuka, konfrontasi tentera, anda berisiko kitaran tindak balas dan respons dengan susah payah melihat di mana titik akhir, " John E. McLaughlin kata. 1 soalan yang semulajadi di sini, bagaimana Washington boleh terus bercakap peperangan, dengan begitu banyak Amerika terhadapnya?

"Saya mempunyai pemikiran masa keras contoh mana-mana apa-apa isu yang kelakuan kerajaan kita di Washington sepadan dengan pendapat majoriti. Perang tidak beberapa jenis pengecualian. Orang awam ialah terhadap menyelamatkan bank-bank, orang ramai terhadap subsidi untuk syarikat-syarikat tenaga, orang ramai terhadap peperangan, orang ramai berbanding hanya kira-kira setiap keputusan yang dibuat mengenai isu-isu penting di Washington, "David Swanson merungut RT.

Tetapi adakah kerajaan peduli?

Rasa banyak perselisihan di antara apa yang Amerika mahu, dan apa yang pemimpin lakukan di atas nama rakyat Amerika, tidak sempit.

Malah, ia semakin luas.

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With harsh US rhetoric and tensions around Iran’s nuclear program snowballing by the hour, American polls nonetheless show that most Americans think a war with Tehran would be a grave mistake. But do the leaders care?

Despite Iran’s recent consent to return to negotiations over its atomic work, the Obama administration says war with Tehran is still on the table. Even harsher statements come from some of Washington’s hawks like Newt Gingrich, who spoke of breaking the Iranian regime within a year. The calls however appear to find little support with the ordinary people. Online and telephone surveys by one of the country’s online companion polls show the majority of Americans do not back the government’s talk of war against Iran.

The residents of one American city went even further and took the matter to their City Council. The legislative body of Charlottesville in Virginia passed a resolution, believed to be a first in the country, opposing the launching of a war on Iran, as well as calling for an end to current ground and drone wars engaged in by the US. “The popular will has always been against wars, unless pushed and dragged by a very manipulative propaganda,” David Swanson, co-author of the resolution told RT. “And they have been trying – those who want war on Iran – have been trying unsuccessfully for years to get the American people onboard”.

RT’s Gayane Chichakyan went out on the streets of Washington to see how many people she met who want the US to attack Iran.

The result was – just one, out of more than a dozen.

And it’s not just ordinary US people, but many experts in the security field, who warn against starting a war with Iran. One of these is a former acting director of the CIA.

“People keep saying that the military option is still on the table. I think it would be a very bad option… One of the big problems with Iran is that if you get into an open confrontation, a military confrontation, you risk a cycle of retaliation and response with great difficulty seeing where the end point is,” John E. McLaughlin says. A natural question here is, how can Washington continue talking war, with so many Americans against it? 

“I have a hard time thinking of any example of any issue on which the conduct of our government in Washington corresponds with majority opinion. War is not some kind of exception. The public is against bailouts for bankers, the public is against subsidies for energy companies, the public is against wars, the public is against just about every decision made on important issues in Washington,” David Swanson laments to RT.

But does the government care?

Many sense that the rift between what Americans want, and what the leaders do in the name of the American people, is not narrowing.

In fact, it is getting wider.