Opinion Poll Questions

There are no correct or incorrect responses to the following public opinion survey questions. After making your selections you may review below the responses that others gave in 1999.

1. Do you think the U.S. overnment's bombing Serb targets was the right or the wrong decision?
Right
 Wrong
 No Opinion

2. All in all, do you think the situation in Kosovo was worth going to war over, or not?

Yes, worth going to war
 No, not worth going to war
 No Opinion
3. How much credit do you think President Clinton deserves for the peace agreement that was reached in Kosovo?
a great deal
 a moderate amount
 not much
 none at all
4. How would you rate President Clinton's handling of the situation in Kosovo?
Excellent
 Pretty good
 Only Fair
 Poor
 No Opinion
5. If Europe ever experiences another genocidal holocaust, which if any of the following would you approve?
unilateral U.S. humanitarian intervention
 multilateral NATO humanitarian intervention
 multilateral U.N. humanitarian intervention
 humanitarian intervention is never appropriate
6. Which if any of the following would have justified use of ground troops to assure victory?
Serbia's ability to withstand NATO bombing and retain total control of Kosovo
 Total expulsion of all Muslims from Kosovo destabilizing Macedonia and Albania
 Serbian military attack inside Albania on refugee camps run by the KLA
 Extirmination camps in Kosovo for killing all Albanian Muslims
7. Which of the following individuals should the U.N. have the authority to investigate for alleged violations of the Geneva
Convention and, if sufficient evidence is found, to prosecute and to punish?
Serbian soldiers
 Serbian military commanders
 Serbian political leaders, top government officials including Milosevic
 NATO pilots
 NATO military commanders
 NATO political leaders including President Clinton
 Alleged war criminals should only be subject to national courts, not U.N. jurisdiction
8. Indicate whether you would be interested in the following Kosovo related activities.
read a newspaper or internet report
watch a one hour TV documentary
 discuss new developments with others
 support a national political candidate who shares my views on U.S. intervention
 if renewed fighting causes extensive fatalities, give personal time or money intended to influence whether or not the U.S. or a private agency intervenes

Survey results from several polling organizations that posed the above questions can be reviewed, or you may proceed durectly to write an analysis of the problem based on a three part essay question.

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