Majority Say Afghanistan War Not Worth Fighting
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 16th, 2010 5:43 am by HL
Majority Say Afghanistan War Not Worth Fighting
A new ABC News-Washington Post poll finds a record 60% of Americans “say the war in Afghanistan has not been worth fighting, a grim assessment — and a politically hazardous one — in advance of the Obama administration’s one-year review of its revised strategy.”
Key finding: “Negative views of the war for the first time are at the level of those recorded for the war in Iraq, whose unpopularity dragged George W. Bush to historic lows in approval across his second term. On average from 2005 through 2009, 60 percent called that war not worth fighting, the same number who say so about Afghanistan now.”
Quote of the Day
“The bill is loaded up with pork projects, and it shouldn’t get a vote.”
— Sen. John Thune (R-SD), quoted by ABC News, on the omibus spending bill that also happens to include his own earmarks.
