Public Confidence in Free Fall over Administration’s Approach to Terrorist Threat

by The Editors with Family Security Matters

The American people are growing increasingly concerned about the Administration’s strategy – or lack thereof – when it comes to confronting and defeating the terrorist threat. According to a recent Rasmussen poll, only 42% of Americans believe we are winning the war on terrorism. That’s a 20 point drop since February – a huge decline in confidence as the Administration begins its second 100 days.

Why are Americans having such misgivings about the Administration’s approach to the threat of radical Jihadists? A new web video highlights some of the reasons – reasons underscored in a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last week. The poll showed that a majority of Americans oppose the Administration’s political decision to selectively release memos detailing advanced interrogation techniques used on terrorists and oppose the President’s plan to close a terrorist detention facility with no plan for what to do with the terrorists housed there.

On Day 101 of the Administration, the President and Congress are being called upon to make a commitment to an overarching strategy for fighting and defeating terrorism. As recent polling, the web video, and the Administration’s piecemeal, political actions in determining how to deal with the terrorist threat make clear, that strategy doesn’t exist – and that has the American people concerned. Is the Administration prepared to do develop that strategy?