No joke the polls would say that, if every other day your town was blown up you would say that too. However, it isn't the soldiers blowing up your town. Usually these polls are conducted when violence is at a peak. I saw a great interview with a General:

"if you polled Americans on how patriotic they were on April 1st and then conducted the same poll on July 4th, your results would be drastically different"

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