Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:38 AM
Original message |
Poll question: Do you support the current US strategy in Afghanistan? |
|
Edited on Tue Mar-02-10 11:42 AM by Robb
...AND, how do you identify yourself with regard to gender?
|
wuushew
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:42 AM
Response to Original message |
1. why is gender relevant? |
Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:42 AM
Response to Reply #1 |
leftstreet
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:55 AM
Response to Reply #2 |
5. Why not break it down by race? Religious affiliation? Snack food preference? |
Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 12:28 PM
Response to Reply #5 |
|
...Perhaps in another poll. I expect it would be quite illuminating. :D
|
paulsby
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 12:51 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
7. gender matters when it comes to political/policy opinions |
|
as a metric assload of polls show
so does marital status, income, being a parent, religion, geographical region, level of education, etc.
|
wuushew
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 12:56 PM
Response to Reply #7 |
10. The poll is not random |
|
you can't make any predictions from said data. What is point of asking?
|
paulsby
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 02:44 PM
Response to Reply #10 |
|
nor are they remotely scientific.
doesn't stop us from doing them.
by that logic, what's the point of ANY DU poll?
it's an informal opinion poll, nonscientific , and polled amongst a select set
take it fwiw
|
bridgit
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 01:00 PM
Response to Reply #1 |
11. Males are already out voting females in sigificant numbers... |
|
One could ask themselves why that is but there it is
|
Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 07:44 PM
Response to Reply #11 |
18. Indeed. Running away with it. |
harkadog
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 10:32 PM
Response to Reply #18 |
37. Maybe there is more males than females on DU. |
|
I have no idea if that is true or not.
|
laststeamtrain
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:52 AM
Response to Original message |
3. I don't support nothin' & you can call me MISTER Whoopie. Now beat it. n/t. |
Echo In Light
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:53 AM
Response to Original message |
4. 110% anti-militarization of anything |
L0oniX
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 07:57 PM
Response to Reply #4 |
Vidar
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 12:54 PM
Response to Original message |
Tierra_y_Libertad
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 12:54 PM
Response to Original message |
9. Pissing in the wind is a strategy? We lost. Get out. Get over it. |
anonymous171
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 09:01 PM
Response to Reply #9 |
31. If we actually lost we wouldn't be there anymore |
Tierra_y_Libertad
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 09:18 PM
Response to Reply #31 |
33. By any reasonable measure we have lost. Now we're there to save face. |
|
The "World's Mightiest Military" with the world's best arms, that outnumber the "enemy" forces, have complete control of the air, unlimited materiel, is awash in money supplied to them by a lapdog congress, with no discernible "mission", is bogged down in a backward, poverty stricken country with a corrupt government financed by us that poses no threat to us.
The very best we can hope for is the same "Peace with Honor" that Nixon gave us when he didn't "lose" Vietnam.
|
stray cat
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 01:03 PM
Response to Original message |
12. How many people on DU know the details of the strategy? |
Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 01:09 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
|
We'll have to qualify it with "what we know of," I suppose.
|
G_j
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 02:49 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
15. whatever "details" are available to the public |
|
Edited on Tue Mar-02-10 02:49 PM by G_j
I can assure you that awareness here is far, far greater than the general populace.
|
L0oniX
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:02 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
23. All anyone needs to know is that 700+ billion a year is spent on the fucking military... |
|
and there's no public health care for those under 65 ...and we don't have jobs (unless we join the fucking military) ...and they want to cut back on and or privatize SS. WTF cares about their damned strategy? How about we pull out all of our bases world wide and shut down the wars and stop agitating the Muslim world and then see how much that reduces terrorism ...for a fucking change?
|
Edweird
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:22 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
27. Until the strategy is 'get the fuck outta that godforsaken hellhole' |
anonymous171
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 09:03 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
32. Who cares? The US military is under civilian control. |
|
They will do whatever the hell we want them too.
|
amborin
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 10:07 PM
Response to Reply #12 |
36. you mean paying for Karzai's villas in Dubai? |
Iggo
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 03:11 PM
Response to Original message |
Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 04:13 PM
Response to Reply #16 |
Individualist
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 07:46 PM
Response to Original message |
19. This woman says where's the hell no option! |
Stinky The Clown
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 07:55 PM
Response to Original message |
20. I was going to vote but decided not to because of the gender thing ..... |
Robb
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 10:02 PM
Response to Reply #20 |
34. Originally I was simply curious |
|
...It seems more than a few people are ticked off I even asked. I thought it would be interesting to see how gender broke this down as well. Sorry to have offended, if you are.
That said, it's turned out to have kind of interesting results. DU men outnumber DU women across the board in being interested enough to click on the thread and vote on the subject, for example. That's interesting, although I don't of course know what it means.
...On the "in favor" side, men outnumber women 5 to 1, and on the "against" side men outnumber women just 2 to 1.
The "other," which in retrospect is where the "on the fence" folks would wind up, is tiny.
And, of course, respondents are overwhelmingly against. All interesting stuff to me -- like many DU topics, it's more clear where the majority stand when you do a poll, rather than just following the threads. Loud voices and what-not. :)
|
WinkyDink
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 07:59 PM
Response to Original message |
22. WHAT strategy? Why are we there? To destroy the Taliban because....we want the poppy fields? YES. |
Edweird
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:20 PM
Response to Original message |
24. In and out wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am would have done trick - if that was actually the goal. |
|
Apparently it was not. It was a subterfuge.
|
bigwillq
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:21 PM
Response to Original message |
25. DO NOT support it (nt) |
laughingliberal
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:21 PM
Response to Original message |
lib2DaBone
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:53 PM
Response to Original message |
28. Bring the troops home.. Spend the $14 BILLION per month here.. |
anonymous171
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:57 PM
Response to Original message |
29. I do not support the strategy and am male. |
|
Unjust wars of aggression are bad.
|
Name removed
(0 posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 08:58 PM
Response to Original message |
|
Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.
|
LWolf
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 10:06 PM
Response to Original message |
Orsino
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
|
Tue Mar-02-10 11:04 PM
Response to Original message |
38. It has not yet been proven that we have a strategy... |
|
...beyond enriching contractors and providing a permanent excuse for infringing liberties.
|
DU
AdBot (1000+ posts) |
Tue Apr 23rd 2024, 11:25 AM
Response to Original message |