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Americans Think Afghan War Was Not Worth Fighting: Poll
[Tolo News] A year ahead of the NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troop withdraw, according to a recent Washington Post and ABC News poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that the 13-year war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. However, it was a brave man who first ate an oyster... the same poll found that the majority of Americans believe a residual force of should remain in the country to train and back up Afghan soldiers post-2014. That figure would indicate predominate support for the Kabul-Washington security pact, which remains to be finalized. Four in 10 polled said all U.S. troops should be removed from the country. Belief that the war wasn't worth fighting has been the view of a majority since a Post-ABC poll on the subject in 2010. But the latest iteration shows a record 50 percent saying they "strongly" believe the war wasn't worth fighting. Support for the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan was in the 90-percentile range when the war started over a decade ago in the wake of al Qaeda's 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington. Opposition to the war evidently cuts across party lines, with Democrats at 67 percent, Independents at 71 percent and Republicans at 54 percent. The future U.S. military role remains in limbo because President Hamid Maybe I'll join the TalibanKarzai ... 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 Pashtunface 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... has refused to sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) that would keep an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan and ensure some 4.1 billion USD in military aid to the Afghan forces after next year. In response to the survey, Afghan Senator Mohammad Daoud Asaas contended that the war was more useful for the U.S. than Afghanistan. "The truth is that the Afghan war was useful for the Americans, not for the people of this country," Senator Asaas told TOLOnews. Experts say the financial costs of the war in Afghanistan is the primary reason for most Americans' skepticism about the merits of the war. The National Priorities Project has posted a running tally of the cost of the war, which now numbers around $682 billion. Posted by: Fred 2013-12-23 |
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