Poll: Assessment of Afghanistan War Sours

[cory777]

Source: ABC News/Washington Post

A record 60 percent of Americans say the war in Afghanistan has not been worth fighting, a grim assessment -- and a politically hazardous one -- in advance of the Obama administration's one-year review of its revised strategy.

Public dissatisfaction with the war, now the nation's longest, has spiked by 7 points just since July. Given its costs vs. its benefits, only 34 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll say the war's been worth fighting, down by 9 points to a new low, by a sizable margin.

Negative views of the war for the first time are at the level of those recorded for the war in Iraq, whose unpopularity dragged George W. Bush to historic lows in approval across his second term. On average from 2005 through 2009, 60 percent called that war not worth fighting, the same number who say so about Afghanistan now. (It peaked at 66 percent in April 2007.)

As support for the Iraq war went down, approval of Bush's job performance fell in virtual lockstep, a strongly cautionary note for President Obama. Presidents Truman and Johnson also saw their approval ratings drop sharply during the wars in Korea and Vietnam.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/abc-news-washington-post-poll-exclusive-afghanistan-war/story?id=12404367

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[Arctic Dave]

1. Fuck this war and fuck the PTB that want to keep up the murder.

[Plucketeer]

2. AS LONG AS

There's a buck to be made by American contractors that supply weapons, mercenaries and shit we can't even begin to imagine, what WE THE PEOPLE think is IR-fucking-RELEVANT! :nuke:


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OBAMA-GOP PLAN for the 98% of us.

[David__77]

3. Obama's war is a failure.

He should acknowledge that and withdraw.

[unkachuck]

4. I almost agree....

....however, he should declared the war an unmitigated success, then withdraw....the greater the success, the sooner the withdrawal....

....nobody will believe him, but who today, believes a politician?

[USA_1]

5. ''Mission Accomplished'' ?

Remember Bush's nicely put statement? Many Repukeblicans still believe it. Worked for them, I'm sure it can work for the Dems as well.

[No Elephants]

6. Supporting an Afghani surge was delusional, IMO. Guess

we felt the 911 link to Afghanistan was still strong in American minds and 911 is America's "Open Sesame."

[harun]

7. Wars that end is so 20th Century. The United States will never be at peace.