Do you support the current US strategy in Afghanistan?

[Robb]

Poll question: Do you support the current US strategy in Afghanistan?

...AND, how do you identify yourself with regard to gender?

[wuushew]

1. why is gender relevant?

n/t

[Robb]

2. Why not?

[leftstreet]

5. Why not break it down by race? Religious affiliation? Snack food preference?

:shrug:

[Robb]

6. Heh

...Perhaps in another poll. I expect it would be quite illuminating. :D

[paulsby]

7. gender matters when it comes to political/policy opinions

as a metric assload of polls show

so does marital status, income, being a parent, religion, geographical region, level of education, etc.

[wuushew]

10. The poll is not random

you can't make any predictions from said data. What is point of asking?

[paulsby]

14. no DU poll is

nor are they remotely scientific.

doesn't stop us from doing them.

by that logic, what's the point of ANY DU poll?

it's an informal opinion poll, nonscientific , and polled amongst a select set

take it fwiw

[bridgit]

11. Males are already out voting females in sigificant numbers...

One could ask themselves why that is but there it is

[Robb]

18. Indeed. Running away with it.

I wonder why as well.

[harkadog]

37. Maybe there is more males than females on DU.

I have no idea if that is true or not.

[laststeamtrain]

3. I don't support nothin' & you can call me MISTER Whoopie. Now beat it. n/t.

[Echo In Light]

4. 110% anti-militarization of anything

[L0oniX]

21. [phone]

[Vidar]

8. Hell no!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

9. Pissing in the wind is a strategy? We lost. Get out. Get over it.

[anonymous171]

31. If we actually lost we wouldn't be there anymore

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

33. By any reasonable measure we have lost. Now we're there to save face.

The "World's Mightiest Military" with the world's best arms, that outnumber the "enemy" forces, have complete control of the air, unlimited materiel, is awash in money supplied to them by a lapdog congress, with no discernible "mission", is bogged down in a backward, poverty stricken country with a corrupt government financed by us that poses no threat to us.

The very best we can hope for is the same "Peace with Honor" that Nixon gave us when he didn't "lose" Vietnam.

[stray cat]

12. How many people on DU know the details of the strategy?

[Robb]

13. Good question.

We'll have to qualify it with "what we know of," I suppose.

[G_j]

15. whatever "details" are available to the public

I can assure you that awareness here is far, far greater than the general populace.

[L0oniX]

23. All anyone needs to know is that 700+ billion a year is spent on the fucking military...

and there's no public health care for those under 65 ...and we don't have jobs (unless we join the fucking military) ...and they want to cut back on and or privatize SS. WTF cares about their damned strategy? How about we pull out all of our bases world wide and shut down the wars and stop agitating the Muslim world and then see how much that reduces terrorism ...for a fucking change?

[Edweird]

27. Until the strategy is 'get the fuck outta that godforsaken hellhole'

I don't support it.

[anonymous171]

32. Who cares? The US military is under civilian control.

They will do whatever the hell we want them too.

[amborin]

36. you mean paying for Karzai's villas in Dubai?

[Iggo]

16. Yes.

With my taxes.

[Robb]

17. Touché. nt

[Individualist]

19. This woman says where's the hell no option!

[Stinky The Clown]

20. I was going to vote but decided not to because of the gender thing .....

.... what's that about?

[Robb]

34. Originally I was simply curious

...It seems more than a few people are ticked off I even asked. I thought it would be interesting to see how gender broke this down as well. Sorry to have offended, if you are.

That said, it's turned out to have kind of interesting results. DU men outnumber DU women across the board in being interested enough to click on the thread and vote on the subject, for example. That's interesting, although I don't of course know what it means.

...On the "in favor" side, men outnumber women 5 to 1, and on the "against" side men outnumber women just 2 to 1.

The "other," which in retrospect is where the "on the fence" folks would wind up, is tiny.

And, of course, respondents are overwhelmingly against. All interesting stuff to me -- like many DU topics, it's more clear where the majority stand when you do a poll, rather than just following the threads. Loud voices and what-not. :)

[WinkyDink]

22. WHAT strategy? Why are we there? To destroy the Taliban because....we want the poppy fields? YES.

[Edweird]

24. In and out wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am would have done trick - if that was actually the goal.

Apparently it was not. It was a subterfuge.

[bigwillq]

25. DO NOT support it (nt)

[laughingliberal]

26. Nope! nt

[lib2DaBone]

28. Bring the troops home.. Spend the $14 BILLION per month here..

[anonymous171]

29. I do not support the strategy and am male.

Unjust wars of aggression are bad.

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[LWolf]

35. NO. nt

[Orsino]

38. It has not yet been proven that we have a strategy...

...beyond enriching contractors and providing a permanent excuse for infringing liberties.