A new Harris Poll shows that teenagers increasingly have lost confidence in a US victory in the war on terrorism or in the war in Iraq. The survey indicates that only 58 percent believe the US will win the war on terrorism, compared to 82 percent in 2001. Similarly, positive responses about a US victory in Iraq dropped to 38 percent from 83 percent. Americans teens also have shifted their views dramatically on whether the US will find and punish those responsible for 9/11, dropping from 79 percent who believed the US would succeed to only 47 percent today.
The United States Air Force is flying less than historic norms and funding for acquisition and readiness is on a path to further hollow out this too small and old force to that is incapable of sustaining an enduring combat air campaign.
