Seburuk sebagaimana Bush: 64% peratus daripada rakyat Amerika berkata dasar luar Obama adalah sama atau lebih teruk daripada GWB’s . . .

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SitiWanMahani - Seburuk sebagaimana Bush: 64% peratus daripada rakyat Amerika berkata dasar luar Obama adalah sama atau lebih teruk daripada GWB’s. Hampir 2/3 daripada rakyat Amerika mengatakan pengendalian Presiden Barack Obama dasar luar adalah sama ada sama atau lebih buruk daripada yang sebelumnya George W. Bush, satu tinjauan baru mendedahkan.

Keputusan baru-baru ini undian ‘Reason-Rupe’ diterbitkan pada hari Selasa minggu ini menunjukkan bahawa majoriti rakyat Amerika – 64% peratus - mempertimbangkan prestasi kerja semasa komander-in-chief yang berkaitan dengan hal ehwal antarabangsa sebagai tidak lebih baik daripada Pres. Bush, yang menendang-mula peperangan di kedua-dua Afghanistan dan Iraq sepanjang 8 tahun di White House.

Menurut keputusan tinjauan pendapat itu, 32% peratus daripada rakyat Amerika ditemubual berkata pengendalian Obama dasar luar adalah lebih buruk daripada yang sebelumnya, dengan 32% peratus juga berkata ia adalah "lebih-kurang sama.”

Just as bad as Bush: 64 percent of Americans say Obama's foreign policy is equal to or worse than GWB's

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Barack Obama’s handling of foreign policy is either equal to or worse than that of predecessor George W. Bush, a new poll reveals.

The results of a recent Reason-Rupe poll published on Tuesday this week suggest that a majority of Americans - 64 percent - consider the current commander-in-chief’s job performance with regards to international affairs to be no better than Pres. Bush, who kick-started wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq during his eight years in the White House.

According to the results of the poll, 32 percent of Americans polled said Obama’s handling of foreign policy is worse than that of his predecessor, with 32 percent also saying it was “about the same.”

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32% peratus daripada 1, 013 orang dewasa yang ditinjau berkata mereka mempertim-bangkan pengendalian dasar luar Obama lebih baik daripada Pres. Bush.

Dan sebagai potensi serangan United tentera Amerika yang dipimpin menentang rejim pemimpin Syria Bashar Al ‘Assad kekal kemungkinan yang amat nyata pada hari-hari yang akan datang, Sebab itu Emily Ekins menulis bahawa Obama - yang terkenal berkata beliau menentang “perang bodoh” - boleh melancarkan Amerika Syarikat ke dalam keadaan yang tidak akan disokong oleh majoriti rakyat Amerika.

“Hampir 3 suku daripada rakyat Amerika, 74% peratus, berkata ia akan menjadi ‘bijak’ bagi Amerika Syarikat untuk melancarkan serangan udara ke atas Syria tanpa sokongan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu atau Great Britain,” Ekins menulis keputusannya.

Selain itu, hanya 17% peratus daripada mereka yang ditinjau berkata ia akan menjadi satu langkah yang bijak untuk menyerang rejim Assad untuk menegur pemimpin Syria untuk kegunaan yang dikatakan senjata kimia bulan lepas di luar Damsyik. White House berkata sebelum ini bahawa tentera Assad dikerahkan peluru kimia pada 21 Ogos dan seterusnya menghapuskan lebih daripada 1,400 orang.

Peratusan yang sama rakyat Amerika yang meletakkan rekod dasar luar Bush di-atau-di atas bahawa Pres. Obama – 64% peratus - memberitahu peninjau pendapat bahawa serangan udara Amerika Syarikat terhadap Syria tidak perlu untuk melindungi kredibiliti Amerika dan keselamatan negara, walaupun pentadbiran berhujah sebaliknya.

Pres. Obama telah mempertimbangkan serangan ketenteraan unilateral terhadap Assad tanpa menghampiri Kongres untuk pengesahan, tetapi di hari baru-baru ini dirasmikan permintaan dengan Dewan dan Senat dan sejak pengundian ditangguhkan sementara pilihan diplomatik dianggap oleh PBB dan masyarakat antarabangsa.

Dasar luar pula, bagaimanapun, pentadbiran Obama tidak memenangi sokongan banyak di kalangan rakyat Amerika yang ditinjau menerusi Reason-Rupe. Menurut soal siasat mereka, 61% peratus mengatakan bahawa mereka percaya Amerika Syarikat menuju dalam “arah yang salah,” berbanding dengan 28% peratus yang mengatakan Amerika ialah, “umumnya,” di atas jalan yang betul.

43% peratus daripada mereka yang ditinjau berkata mereka bersetuju dengan prestasi kerja keseluruhan Obama. Sebelum Amerika Syarikat menghamburkan kata-kata-atas kepentingannya dalam perang saudara di Syria, poll yang sama dijalankan pada bulan Mei mendapati bahawa sebenarnya separuh daripada rakyat Amerika yang ditinjau diluluskan kerja presiden, menandakan titik drop 7% peratus dalam masa beberapa bulan.

Pada taklimat media pada Rabu, Setiausaha Akhbar White House Jay Carney mengakui keengganan presiden untuk menggunakan kuasa tentera di Syria selepas lebih daripada satu dekad peperangan bermula di bawah pentadbiran Bush.

“Dia tahu dan mengetahui dan memahami bahawa rakyat Amerika amat keberatan untuk mendapatkan Amerika Syarikat yang terlibat lagi ketenteraan di Timur Tengah - bukan sahaja di Timur Tengah, tetapi di mana-mana,” Carney kepada pemberita. “Tetapi sebagai seorang yang amat memahami bahawa, dan yang telah menghabiskan masa selama 4  setengah tahun sebagai presiden mendapatkan kami daripada peperangan, beliau percaya dalam kes yang dia dibuat malam tadi, dan saya fikir dia faham mengapa terdapat keengganan dan mengapa ada kebimbangan tentang berpotensi menarik Syria sebagai tindak balas kepada penggunaan senjata kimia.”

Thirty-two percent of the 1,013 adults polled said they consider Obama’s handling of foreign policy better than that of Pres. Bush.

And as a potential United States-led military strike against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s regime remains a very real possibility in the days to come, Reason’s Emily Ekins wrote that Obama - who famously said he opposes “dumb wars” - could launch the US into a situation that wouldn’t be supported by a majority of Americans.

“Nearly three-quarters of Americans, 74 percent, say it would be ‘unwise’ for the United States to launch airstrikes on Syria without the support of the United Nations or Great Britain,” Ekins wrote of the results.

Additionally, only 17 percent of those polled said it would be a wise move to attack Assad’s regime to reprimand the Syrian leader for the alleged use of chemical weapons last month outside of Damascus. The White House said previously that Assad’s army deployed chemical warheads on August 21 and in turn eradicated more than 1,400 people.

The same proportion of Americans who put Bush’s foreign policy record at-or-above that of Pres. Obama - 64 percent - told pollsters that US airstrikes against Syria are not necessary to protect America’s credibility and national security, despite the administration arguing otherwise.

Pres. Obama had been considering a unilateral military strike against Assad without approaching Congress for authorization, but has in recent days formalized his request with the House and Senate and has since postponed voting while diplomatic options are considered by the UN and international community.

Foreign policy aside, however, the Obama administration isn’t winning much support among the Americans polled by Reason and Rupe. According to their questioning, 61 percent said they believe the US is heading in the “wrong direction,” compared to 28 percent who say America is, “generally speaking,” on the right path.

Forty-three percent of those surveyed said they disapprove of Obama’s overall job performance. Before the US ramped-up its interest in the Syrian civil war, a similar poll conducted in May found that exactly half of Americans polled approved of the president’s job, signaling a 7 percentage point drop in a matter of months.

At a press briefing on Wednesday, White House press secretary Jay Carney acknowledge the president's reluctance to use military force in Syria after more than a decade of wars started under the Bush administration.

"He knew and knows and understands that the American people are extremely reluctant to get the United States involved again militarily in the Middle East -- not just in the Middle East, but anywhere," Carney told reporters. "But as someone who deeply understands that, and who has spent four and a half years as president getting us out of wars, he believes in the case that he made last night, and I think he understands why there's reluctance and why there's anxiety about potentially striking Syria in response to the use of chemical weapons."