{"id":225,"date":"2006-01-04T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T07:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=225"},"modified":"2006-01-03T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T20:50:16","slug":"time-for-a-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/time-for-a-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for a Coup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a \n\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.militarycity.com\/polls\/2005_main.php\">Military Times Polls<\/a><br \/>\nTroops sound off<br \/>\nMilitary Times Poll finds high <\/p>\n<p>morale, but less support for Bush, war effort<br \/>\nBy Gordon Trowbridge<br \/>\nTimes staff writer<\/p>\n<p><strong>Support for President Bush and <\/p>\n<p>for the war in Iraq has slipped significantly in the last year among members of the military\u2019s professional core<\/strong>, according to <\/p>\n<p>the 2005 Military Times Poll.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Approval of the president\u2019s Iraq policy fell 9 percentage points from 2004; a bare majority, <\/p>\n<p>54 percent, now say they view his performance on Iraq as favorable. Support for his overall performance fell 11 points, to 60 percent, <\/p>\n<p>among active-duty readers of the Military Times newspapers.<\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Positive feelings about Congress, civilian and uniformed <\/p>\n<p>Pentagon leaders and the media all fell. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>While roughly a third of Americans describe themselves as Democrats, just 13 <\/p>\n<p>percent of Military Times Poll respondents do so.<\/strong> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Kohn said he worried that asking such questions of military members <\/p>\n<p>and publishing the results could tarnish the military\u2019s image as a nonpartisan institution.<\/p>\n<p>The poll \u201ctends to communicate to the <\/p>\n<p>American people that the military is just like any other interest group,\u201d Kohn said. \u201cWe want the public image of the military to be <\/p>\n<p>decidedly apolitical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarycity.com\/polls\/2005_gapside.php\">Military Times Polls<\/a><br \/>\nDisconnect cited <\/p>\n<p>between troops, civilian leadership<br \/>\nBy Gordon Trowbridge<br \/>\nTimes staff writer<\/p>\n<p>From Congress to the White House to the <\/p>\n<p>Pentagon, <strong>the career-oriented heart of the military appears increasingly estranged from its leaders in Washington<\/strong>, <\/p>\n<p>according to results of the 2005 Military Times Poll.<\/p>\n<p>The poll of active-duty subscribers to the Military Times newspapers also <\/p>\n<p>shows <strong>continued disdain for the media<\/strong> and a belief that the military\u2019s prestige may have slipped in the eyes of <\/p>\n<p>civilians. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>58 percent agreed that President Bush had their best interests at heart, down 11 percentage points from a year ago. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Congress saw the most dramatic drop: Just 31 percent agreed Congress looked out for their best interests, less than half the <\/p>\n<p>number a year ago. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>David Segal, an expert in military sociology at the University of Maryland , said the results mirror a <\/p>\n<p>similar estrangement between civilian Americans and their political leaders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI see military attitudes converging with <\/p>\n<p>civilian non-elite attitudes,\u201d which show fewer Americans believing that political leaders are looking out for their interests. <\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Times Polls Troops sound off Military Times Poll finds high morale, but less support for Bush, war effort By Gordon Trowbridge Times staff writer Support for President Bush and for the war in Iraq has slipped significantly in the last year among members of the military\u2019s professional core, according to the 2005 Military Times &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/time-for-a-coup\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time for a Coup?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}