Folks have a reluctance to admit their ignorance. And unlike folks on this forum, most folks are shockingly clueless when it comes to geography. Heck, I saw some poll, that 60% or something of high school students in Dallas, did not know in which direction Mexico was.
The name in play here, sounds more like a terrorist group anyway, as opposed to a fictional place.
You'd think people would have watched Aladdin, though.
Wacthing Aladdin make people more likely to want to bomb, simply because it make the name sightly recognisable. I saw it as a child, but I couldn't remember that Agrabah was from Aladdin (I remembered it as Baghdad).
As for the poll, I'm not surprised, do anybody think the poll had been much different if the question had been "Should USA condemn the Agrabah occupation of Frigyzstan" and the people asked Democratic primary voters?