U.S. Drone Strikes Supported By American Public, To A Point: Survey

Say the government planned on launching an attack on al Qaeda militants in Yemen. The joint chiefs of staff predict that American soldiers will die. Would you support the mission? What if the government used drones instead of troops? No Americans would die, but innocent foreigners would. Could you get behind that? James Walsh, a political science professor at the University of North Carolina, posed versions of these questions to people who participated in a recent internet survey.