A new poll conducted by a myriad of international media outlets, including ABC News, BBC, ARD and the Washington Post showed huge pessimism amongst Afghans, a strong trends moving against support for the US occupation forces and in favor of supporting the insurgency.
The poll shows confidence in the NATO occupation eventually being successful down to only 36 percent, from 48 percent last year, and only 43 percent view the US favorably, the lowest in six years.
Perhaps the bigger concern, however is that the view toward the Taliban is moving the other way. Last year, only 8 percent of Afghans saw terror attacks as justified. This year, that number climbed to 27 percent. A plurality also generally blamed the US and NATO for civilian deaths, 35 percent.
In the end the figures likely speak more to war-weariness than anything as a whopping 73% supported a negotiated settlement with the Taliban, the largest number yet.
The poll results come a year after the most recent US escalation of the war, and point to popular opinion in Afghanistan getting precipitously worse, even as Pentagon officials emphasize the need to secure popular support to win the conflict. The escalation, it seems, is eroding that support.
No, shit! Wonder if the night raids and the drone attacks are helping Afghans in their support for the insurgents.
Also, leave us not forget "the multiplication factor". That is, if Petraeus says it's going poorly, then translation (by use of the multiplication factor); things are going very very poorly. If Petraeus says 2014 won't fly, then translation, "Under spineless democrats and bloodthirsty Republicans, this clusterf*ck will rock on right up to my retirement date."
lol. Ya MK Ultra. The 200 or more night raids a month, and the drones the U.S. cowards use to bomb babies in the middle of the night, while they’re sleeping surely aren’t exactly engendering support for the homicidal corporate mercenaries, or the warlord mobsters that the U.S. Corporate Terrorists fund and prop up.
Not only that. 10 years is a long time. More and more afghans everyday are waking up to the fact that this whole war has nothing to do with “terrorism” or “spreading democrazy” and everything to do with the plunder of the trillion dollars worth of Lithium deposits and war profiteering in general.
You said it Jeff Davis. But at the rate the war profiteering pigs are spending there is not going to be anything left to retire with. They fubar’d us. We’re done and done.
The end of America happened when Bush and Cheney stole the election and then attacked us on 9-11 as part of the Project For A New American Century. Obama is one of them too. So are the Clintons.
This millenia saw the beginning of the end of our home, our Motherland. And the worst part of it all is we (the american public) supported and voted for the traitorous scum. And we sent our sons and daughters to fight in hellish environments, losing their innocence and their minds and dying for those corporate bastards that used our flag and patriotisom as a weapon against us. Believing their lies and
propaganda. Believing that the enemy was “over there” when all along the enemy has been right here. Right outside our door.