Only 46 percent favored such a unilateral military approach.
Washington was looking for some sort of political settlement but had not yet given up its military approach.
He said that a military approach would not be effective due to the impossibility of identifying the target.
But most of the problems that belong on the short list do not lend themselves to military approaches.
How might this contradictory comment apply, first to war itself, and secondly to the military approach to war?
Aid needs to be directed more toward creating jobs and meeting basic human needs rather than building a military approach to peace.
A solid majority of Israelis has backed his aggressive military approach, according to polls.
Still others find an inherent drawback in the military approach.
But it is clear that a regressive military approach will not work.
"So where you are not willing to use a very aggressive military approach to a certain problem," he added, intelligence is used.