A new CNN/ORC International Poll shows that the opposition to the US occupation of Afghanistan has grown to a record high, with 63 percent of the American public now firmly opposed to the conflict and only 34 percent still supportive.
CNN was quick to point out that the poll did not indicate regret for the 2001 invasion, saying the survey still showed a small majority believing it was “not a mistake” to invade in the wake of 9/11.
But the open-ended nature of the war and its repeated escalation has destroyed public opinion, and another question showed a solid majority of 58 percent of Americans believe Afghanistan has turned into another Vietnam.
The latest poll shows opposition that tops the previous record, in December 2010. Early in 2011 US officials began claiming major progress was being made in the war, and while those claims of progress are still coming in it is clear that people no longer believe the claims.
Ha, like the will of the people matters in America.
A)- CNN is full of sh*t as a Christmas goose.
B)- The Afghaniscam was a staggeringly stupid mistake from the git.
C)- Polling, whether CNN and/or whomever, is abject bullsh*t.
D)- GET OUT OF IT!!!
The Afghaniscam, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Uganda, Somalia, and/or WHEREVER!!!
A US marine died in combat in Helmand province on Thursday, October 27. A US soldier died in Ghanzi province on Wednesday, October 26 from small arms fire. At least our US soldiers have died in
four separate incidents in Helmand province this month. Recently the Pentagon claimed nearly all of Helmand was now secure. Twenty three US soldiers have died in combat in Afghanistan so far in October.
It is a good thing, though, that credibility is waining in a majority of the population.
Thanks to administration eccess, to include the breaking of international law, humanitarian (Geneva) conventions and national law, the sleeping giant (the American public) awakens. All of Obama's campaign promises of a more honest and compassionate America, have been thrown to the (politically expedient) wind.
We bomb countries (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen, Soalia, Uganda and Pakistan) that have never harmed or threatened the U.S., we assassinate at will, to include American citizens, and then we celebrate those deaths as high-moral triumphs. Meanwhile our profligate Congress sits on its collective hands until and unless deliberations encompass some sort of plum for corporate America.
It is perplexing to wonder how we got to this place and how we might reverse this course and re-discover who and what America really is. Perhaps our only salvation is the election of Ron Paul, though the odds, (the co-opted media and lobbyists) mitigate strongly against that eventuality.
Yes, while the credibility is waining for the ten year old "conflict" that will end only after all the future generation of resistence in Afghanistan learn that "resistance is futile" — there is always exciting possiblity of new adventures. Most Americans SUPPORTED the Libya "mission to protect civilians", even though most knew Jack about Libya before it hit CNN screens. Now, as the thugs that came to power rule the streets, break into houses, pillage, rape, kill in an orgy of gangsterism, we are "shocked". As if we did not see this movie before. Remember Kosovo. Thugs and old crime families were the "rebels", and the government was just supposed to do nothing as they kills civilians, postmen, rairoad workers, farmers in fields. Then came NATO, and the same criminals are now RUNNING that "country" we are so proud off! Americans were indignant when Russia and China vetoed another such pillaging prospect in Syria. Bottom line, we NEVER learn. Forget CNN. if one wants real news watch RT. Not Al-Jazeera any more. They have been muzzled thoroughly by their regime that plays a major role in the rape of Libya.
am i the only one who seems to remember that support for the war has been in the mid 30s 40s and opposition to the afghan war at about 60% for the past several years.
and that its had only escalated since then.
lets not pretend either that public opinion matters
or that the public will assert their opinions