A majority of Americans say that U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant are a good idea.
But many Americans are worried about the safety of their own country--53 percent think there is a high risk for an attack inside the United States, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll.
"How many terror threat attacks happen in countries like say Spain, Italy, the U.S.? It's not that often. I have more fear of what some whack-job locally is going to do--that's more of a concern to me than some potential threat from some extremist group," Douglas Dowden, a 49-year-old from San Diego, told Israel Hayom.
A Pew survey earlier this year said 59 percent of Americans were "very" or "somewhat worried" that there would soon be another terrorist attack in the United States.
Just after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the figure was 73 percent. After the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013 , Pew reported that 58 percent were concerned another attack was imminent.
There has not been a massive terrorist attack on U.S. soil since 9/11.