It seems appropriate to note this Veterans Day that Americans remain willing to use military force to defend allied nations.  According to a recent Rasmussen poll, 78% of Americans favor rushing to Canada’s defense and only 16% disagree.

The mother country is in second place; 73% think the United States should defend Great Britain.

Tied for third place at 59% each are Mexico and Israel.

Correct, Israel.  Roughly 24% of Americans are evangelical Christians; roughly 2% are Jews.  That leaves a lot of very staunch supporters of the Jewish state who are atheists, mainline Protestants, Catholics or other.  Another poll showed that 70% of Americans consider Israel an ally; only Canada and Britain (at 86% and 85% respectively) scored higher.

This is not new; poll after poll after poll going back to the dawn of serious polling in the 1940s shows strong support among non-Jewish Americans for what its enemies still call, with gritted teeth, the ‘Zionist entity.’

Germany is the only other country which a majority of Americans is ready to fight for; Japan and, surprisingly, France come pretty close.

Not surprisingly, North Korea and Iran topped the enemies list.  In a separate Pew poll taken last month, 61% of Americans (including 66% of independent voters) said they favored military action if necessary to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

Interestingly, American Jews were slightly less supportive of military action against Iran than the population at large.  The American Jewish Committee’s 2009 survey of American Jewish opinion showed 0nly 56% of respondents in favor of military action against Iran.

Anyway, happy Veterans Day.  And thanks to all the readers who have served, or are serving now.