Iraq might be on the brink of civil war, but a new poll reveals that over half of Americans oppose U.S. intervention in the country.

While Iraq faces an advance from radical Sunni Islamists, a Reuters-IPSOS Poll released on Thursday shows that 55 percent of the people surveyed are against intervention of any kind, reports the New York Times. In comparison, only 20 percent said they support U.S. involvement.

The Reuters survey also shows that there is little disparity between Democrats, independents and Republicans in their overall response.  

When questioned whether they stand behind President Obama's position not to intervene unless the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government begins power-sharing with Sunni and Kurdish leaders, most people said that they still opposed U.S. engagement.

Forty-five percent said that the United States should not get involved in the conflict "no matter what," while 34 percent support Obama's conditions for engagement and 21 percent said U.S. involvement was needed to stop radicals from seizing power.

Among those who supported some form of intervention, the most popular action was providing humanitarian aid to victims of the conflict. Another popular response was launching air strikes to support Iraqi government forces and target Sunni militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

According the poll, Republicans and Democrats were predictably split when it came to allocating blame for the Iraq crisis. Sixty-one percent of Republicans pointed fingers at Obama, arguing that U.S. forces should not have pulled U.S. troops out of Iraq in 2011. Meanwhile, only 26 percent of Democrats agreed. Most Democrats -- 74 percent -- said that the crisis proves that withdrawing the forces was the right decision, compared with 39 percent of Republicans.

The survey was published the same day that Obama announced his plan to send 300 military advisers to Iraq to assist Iraqi Security Forces in rooting out ISIS, reports The Hill.

Earlier this week, the president also dispatched 275 U.S. personnel to protect the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.