Continuing Gulf Between Public Policy and Public Opinion
[Governments are not able to] develop strategy and fight wars on the basis of opinion polls.
You have to take a longer-term view [and not a poll showing 66% of Australians now oppose the Iraq War] ... it would have been great, wouldn't it, in 1940 if the Brits had decided to give up on World War II or the Americans did the same after
Neil
John Kerin, “Voters abandon PM over Iraq war,” Australian,
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