3 in 5 Americans think Iraq will never become a stable democracy

A new poll by CBS News reveals some serious gloom: 61 percent of Americans polled believe Iraq will never become a stable democracy, up eight percentage points since September. Have they all been reading ForeignPolicy.com? Here’s the question: Which of these do you think is most likely?   Jun. 2008 Sept. 2007 Iraq will become ...

A new poll by CBS News reveals some serious gloom: 61 percent of Americans polled believe Iraq will never become a stable democracy, up eight percentage points since September. Have they all been reading ForeignPolicy.com?

A new poll by CBS News reveals some serious gloom: 61 percent of Americans polled believe Iraq will never become a stable democracy, up eight percentage points since September. Have they all been reading ForeignPolicy.com?

Here’s the question: Which of these do you think is most likely?

 

Jun. 2008

Sept. 2007

Iraq will become a stable democracy in the next year or two

6%

4%

Iraq will become a stable democracy, but it will take longer than a year or two

29%

42%

Iraq will probably never become a stable democracy

61%

53%

Not sure

4%

1%

 

Carolyn O'Hara is a senior editor at Foreign Policy.

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