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28% of Americans Say Afghan War Unwinnable
[Tolo News] Around 28 percent of Americans think the ongoing war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting, according to the latest joint poll by the Washington Post and ABC News.

The poll finds Afghans are more optimistic about their future than Americans. Fifty nine percent of Afghans think their country is moving in the right direction.

Americans view Afghanistan's Caped President Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai
... A former Baltimore restaurateur, now 12th and current President of Afghanistan, displacing the legitimate president Rabbani in December 2004. He was installed as the dominant political figure after the removal of the Taliban regime in late 2001 in a vain attempt to put a Pashtun face on the successor state to the Taliban. After the 2004 presidential election, he was declared president regardless of what the actual vote count was. He won a second, even more dubious, five-year-term after the 2009 presidential election. His grip on reality has been slipping steadily since around 2007, probably from heavy drug use...
 as illegitimate, incompetent and corrupt.

The reasons that have increased Afghans' optimism about their country's future would probably be the way they compare the past with the present.

There has been a significant increase in the number of children attending schools in Afghanistan. Now more than 8 million children, a third of them girls, attend schools compared to one million in 2001.

Afghans' access to communication has also increased with half of the population using mobile phone services.

Experts criticise the government over lacking proper approaches and said international community would also lose trust if the trend continues so.

"The government itself is responsible. Afghan government hasn't been able to introduce itself to the international community," Amrullah Aman, an Afghan political analyst, said.

The poll says Afghans are mostly troubled by mounting security challenges.
Posted by: Fred 2011-04-03
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=319584