Brutal new CBS poll: Was the War in Iran Worth It?

[senseandsensibility]

Asked what the U.S. should do now, 78% said we should end the war now, 22% said we should continue until Iran gives up more. In response to a question about one of the trump administration's stated goals: has the U.S. permanently stopped Iran's nuclear progress? 31% yes, 69% no.

And the bottom line: Was the war worth it? 31% yes, 69% no.

Yes, trump was desperate to get out. Even he can't ignore numbers like this, and the pressure that Rs must have put on him.

[aeromanKC]

1. I'm a 69%'er.

[displacedvermoter]

5. I think I see what you did there...

[MarineCombatEngineer]

2. Oh, don't kid yourself, he will ignore it or claim it's fake news,

that seems to be his go to when things don't go his way, which seems to be more and more the case.

[senseandsensibility]

3. And then there's the self sabotaging

like he did this morning with the talks. Oh, the chaos is not even close to being over I'm afraid.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

4. I fear you are correct, it's going to get much worse before it gets better,

and let's face it, this is all to distract from the Epstein Files, which he knows him, and his billionaire buddies, are prominently mentioned.

[RandomNumbers]

6. The 31% is the most brutal part. I mean WTF people??

Before I opened this I was guessing the number. I started at 25% then realized, sadly it would still be around 30%, and certainly no lower. I was praying to be wrong.

But no, the deplorable faction of the electorate remains, in fact, deplorable.

[Bengus81]

7. The hard core maga base that will side with Trump no matter what

I thought though it was around 35%. So maybe 4% have abandoned his ass on this one?

[RandomNumbers]

8. You may be right, and if so, that's progress.

But 31% of this country being complete idiots, is still brutal.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. I've Been Saying For Months That....

...the floor on pretty much any topic is 30%.
The 25% in the cult that think he's infallible & 5% of those that care about nothing but low tax rates.
This 31% suggests 69 out of the other 70% disapprove. 98.6% of the persuadable!

[miyazaki]

9. The usual dim third.

Some are truly stupid. Some are just trolls or dgaf, which technically makes them stupid anyway.

[Norrrm]

10. Trump::: Those are fake polls.

[orthoclad]

12. I think a country getting a sneak attack

killing noncombatants and schoolchildren while negotiations were in progress is STRONGLY motivated to upgrade to nukes, whether they wanted to or not to begin.

At this point, I think only a multinational force enjoining security from attack could convince Iran to give up nuke plans, after their Pearl Harbor moment. After all, such an attack led to the first use ever of nukes. But now the roles are reversed.

[LuvLoogie]

13. And the GOPs are only too happy to let him take the heat while they insert and push

section 224 of the national defense authorization bill, which will pass with Democratic help.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/05/congress-us-israel-legislation