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POLL: Are you ‘war weary?’

Posted at 8:00 AM, Sep 10, 2013
and last updated 2013-09-09 22:03:19-04

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A “war weary” public.

The term has been front and center in countless headlines the past couple of weeks.

And a new national poll provides a new measure of just how tired of war Americans have become after more than a decade of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq.

According to a CNN/ORC International survey released Monday, nearly two-thirds of the public now say that the U.S. should be very reluctant to use military force around the world, with only 34% saying the U.S. should be ready and willing to do so.

Americans are also split on whether President Barack Obama is honest and trustworthy. A day before the president appeals to the American people to support military action against Syria in a prime time address, the CNN survey shows that 51% of the public says that Obama’s honest and trustworthy, with 49% disagreeing. In a May CNN/ORC poll, 58% of Americans described the president as honest and trustworthy.