Americans' Support for Afghan Military Action Drops in CNN Poll

[ECH1969]

The number of Americans who approve of U.S. military action in Afghanistan dropped to 56 percent in a CNN poll last month, down from 92 percent in November 2001.

CNN today released results of a poll of 1,047 adult Americans, which Opinion Research Corp. conducted by telephone on Aug. 2 and 3. The poll's margin of sampling error was plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The CNN poll found 28 percent of respondents said the U.S. is winning the war in Afghanistan, while 10 percent said the insurgents are. The poll found the majority of respondents, 58 percent, said neither side is winning.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=avuqHson_CGQ&refer=us

[AX10]

1. Bush F*%($% that mission up too.

[FloridaPat]

2. Kind of hard to understand how our invasion of a country that

was in the stone age 5 years ago is still a problem - for the average MSM reader, listener etc. It really never did go well. They just had Kabul and nothing else protected. Except the oil lanes.

[BushOut06]

10. Look at what the Afghans did to the Soviets

The Soviets were there almost ten years, and wound up leaving with their tales between their legs.

[Ignacio Upton]

3. Iraq is dragging down support for Afghanistan

And this sucks, especially considering we still need to get Bin Laden.

[rodeodance]

4. we let the country go to pot and few see anything redeemable now.

...... The CNN poll found 28 percent of respondents said the U.S. is winning the war in Afghanistan, while 10 percent said the insurgents are. The poll found the majority of respondents, 58 percent, said neither side is winning.

A CNN poll in December 2003 found between 71 percent of Americans approved of U.S. military action in Afghanistan, and 83 percent did in September 2002.

The Department of Defense said that there were 329 U.S. casualties in the Afghanistan War as of Aug. 31.

[rodeodance]

6. 329 U.S. casualties in the Afghanistan War

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Why are we in Afganistan?

I seem to have forgotten the reason for that invasion, failed invasion that is.

[SquireJons]

9. Regime Change...

Don't you remember? Now everything is hunky dorry.

Actually, I hated the Taliban and wasn't sorry to see them kicked out of power. The problem always has been... "now what?"

Afghanistan is like a mountainous version of Russia... where would be empires go to die. Before us, it was most recently the U.S.S.R. Before that it was Great Britain. The list of great nations trying to control the mountains of Afghanistan is quite long. The list of nations that has succeeded in controlling those said mountains is extremely short. The Arabs failed, the Ottomans failed, the Indians failed, the Mongols failed, the Byzantines failed, the Persians failed... even Alexander the Great failed. Afghanistan can not be conquered or controlled. It is what it is, and will remain that way for a very long time... independent, Islamic and indifferent to the concerns of the outside world.

[and-justice-for-all]

14. I thought it was going "Swimmingly"....

Regime change for what purpose? Who benefits from the occupation? I dont think I do, do you?? I find this terrorist ordeal to be a fabrication and a creation of this GOP. Yes, I know somethings in the past are the result of radicals, but we actually have our own radicals that are terrorizing OUR Government....I could careless about Afganistan...

[davhill]

7. Economic impact

While the war in Iraq has produced a huge increase in the price of oil, the war in Afghanistan has produced a corresponding decrease in the price of heroin.

[LynnTheDem]

8. So there is still some hope left for America.

And some day most Americans will finally learn the fact that the majority of the world opposed bush's invasion of Afghanistan just as they did/do bush's invasion of Iraq.

I dream of the day when most Americans know the same reality & facts the vast majority of the rest of the world knows. Probably not in my lifetime, though.

[JI7]

11. but things are going "swimmingly" in Afghanistan

how can that be ?

[IndianaGreen]

13. That's what Coultergeist said, "swimmingly."

She must have been speaking of sperm.

[daleo]

12. 4 Canadians died in Afghanistan today

14 Brits died there yesterday. Things are not exactly going swimmingly.

The CBC had a reporter blathering from Afghanistan today on the subject - I thought it sounded like what a report to Moscow must have been like in the 1980's. We have better weapons, we have better soldiers, we will prevail soon, blah, blah...