I have not voted in this poll because its not asking the right question. Going to War with Syria and launching a limited missile strike are two different things. You will get different poll results depending how the poll is worded! Unfortunately the mods have closed my poll with the different wording. I hope they re-open it.
The firing of missiles, or bombing, directed against a foreign government,
is an Act of War.
The survey question ( War: Yes or No? ) was correct, both literally and figuratively.
I do not mean this in an unkind way, but, I will repeat something that I said on this board in the past couple of days...
Every thinking person over the age of 10 who sees that question, knows what is meant...
War can be big or small, declared or undeclared, long or short, cheap or costly, bombing-only or full-scale invasion...
The survey question paints with a broad brush - on the macro level - and is sufficient to our purposes...
"No" means no.
"Yes" can mean missile strikes or bombing or full-scale invasion or whatever; TBD later.
I agree with you that it would be good to have more detailed insights into how folks would like to proceed, if the audience chooses military action, and there may very well be room for such a poll in the coming days, especially if Congress and/or the President end-up taking action that contravenes our own little survey mechanism, but, at present, it seems best to simply take the pulse of the audience as to whether we should take
ANY action, rather than muddying the waters with details at this early stage in the game.
The mods can speak for themselves but, at first glance, that's MY guess as to why they chose to ask the audience to focus on the existing one... first things first, so-to-speak. I would craft an Action Survey with more options than the one you served-up but your idea is sound... it's merely a bit premature, methinks... nor not...
For whatever that's worth...