The regular Washington Post-ABC News poll on the war in Afghanistan is showing an overwhelming popular opposition to the war, with some 60% of Americans now believing the war is “not worth fighting” and an all time low of 17% who “strongly” believe in the war.
Split by party the poll shows a spike in opposition from independents and for the first time a split among Republicans on the conflict. Democrats remain strongly opposed, although somewhat less so than last year.
Even Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, a long-time hawk, is now calling for an end to the war, saying that the war seems “undoable” and that he doesn’t think America has the “capacity to fundamentally change the region.”
Though released today, the poll was taken over March 7-10, in the wake of the massive anti-US protests in Afghanistan over the burning of the Quran. This means that the massacre by a US soldier over the weekend is not factored into the numbers, but this is liable to make the case for a fundamentally broken war all the more clear.
American people are friendly as any other human being in this world is, people react to what they are told, lying to people and for people to understand it as true is a crime that takes a long time for ordinary people to understand. Wars especially a long ones is one of those things that people react to it soon enough to understand that they were fooled by the deceptive mind of people like George W. Bush, Carl Rove, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perl, and rest of the Zionism in US and EU.
Lately US and EU have changed the game to act fast and end a war quick with bombing the country to its knees, Like in Balkan andLibya, killing its leaders because they could talk and demand for witnesses like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair.., therefore Syrian war is not going the way that they had planed and people start reacting to the facts. So it goes for Afghanistan, an enforced war and occupation of Afghanistan. Once again, there were a democracy in Afghanistan before Saudis hand in hand with Bush-ism – Zionism regime wanted to change that. They simply killed the previous and one before that democracy in Afghanistan when they killed Shah Massoud.
We should get out.
It's not like Viet Nam where we had to continue the war to give Bob Hope something to do.
You mean Madow, Stewart and Colbert, et al, haven't been playing it up all along for the past decade?
Finally americans are seing the mistakes made in the last decade, and I must say, it taste like defeat
As if that meant anything. The politicos and the elites they represent stop listening a long, long, long time ago.
I suspect you're right, Johnny. We have one party in this country, the DemoPublican Party. It's committed to militarism and intervention abroad. It's owned-and-operated by "defense" industry lobbyists.
Remember Lyndon Johnson's comment: "If I've lost Newt Gingrich, I've lost Middle America."
It's only a matter of time, now.
What was it 11 Nations and from 9/11 to 2012…the Taliban is still un-defeated…
If this Government truly wanted to win the war, they would of destroyed the Poppy Plants…
oh yea, Government Approved Oxy Heroin a Health Care Concept…
How many died in this war so far..on both sides…5000 10000…20,000…dont know..
in 2007- 27000 Americans died from this Health Care Concept…1.3 Million Between The USA and Canada….in the last 9/11 to 2011…you say so what..
well where is the money?…. our economy is broke…
Afghan Heroin grows in Mexico…
I wounder how that happened ?