In the last year support for the war in Afghanistan has continued to crumble at a rapid pace, with the latest poll once again finding support for the war at a new low. According to a new AP-Gfk poll only 27 percent of Americans now favor the war, while last year 37 percent favored it.
Currently two-thirds of the country opposes the war in Afghanistan, with 40 percent now saying they “strongly oppose” the war. This is the first time that there are significantly more Americans who are “strongly opposed” to the war than strongly and somewhat favor it. Opposition to the war has grown both in size and intensity.
Given that it is an incredibly costly war that now lacks any clear mission, purpose, or end game, I suspect opposition will only continue to grow.
This election is likely to focus a fair amount on the issue of the federal deficit, so one would think the fact we are wasting billions in a foreign war the American people don’t support or need would be an actual scandal. In a functioning democracy such a deeply unpopular war should be a huge campaign issue. Sadly, I don’t have high hopes, given the presumptive Republican and Democratic nominees and our current system.
It is time to get out of Afghanistan now.




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It is time to get out of Afghanistan now.
It was time to get out ten years ago.
Yes, Knut, but it can’t be said often enough – get out now!
Support crumbling? So what, do you really think the whores in DC care?
We should have never invaded in the first place, but the Taliban left the talks in Houston, with Big Oil, without agreeing to their TAPI pipeline demands. Therefore we get war and an ex-Chevron executive as our puppet president of Afghanistan. Plus the CIA secures increased cash flow from a reinvigorated opium trade and the MIC is enriched. It’s just another example of the USA,Inc. business model. All the while, Michelle Obama tours with pleas to help and support the war veterans, without acknowledging that the best way to help them is to end the wars, stop creating more veterans, and use the savings for their support.
With the amounts these warmongers in D.C. receive in lobbyist/pimp contributions, it would be more accurate to refer to them as prostitutes than whores.
Support for the war was expressed by Halliburton, Exxon-Mobile, Texaco, Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, General Electric, and most of the joint chiefs of staff.
Aptly put!
Doesn’t Obama have plans to get out in 2014?
WHoa! What if Obama gets out in 2012????
Recommended. Let’s get out now. Bring all of the troops home. Out of Afghanistan. Out of Iraq. Out of Africom. Out of the Middle East. Out of Japan and Germany. Out of Korea. And all of the other places I cannot think of at once.
Now Tom, com’on. Wars are what keeps the economy floating. Do you want more unemployment? Gotta keep this going. Oh wait, we cam always start one up in Iran. So back to planning that one.
I agree completely. Now, to increase recruitment, let’s send troops to Tahiti, Bali, Rio de Janeiro, Bora Bora, St. Bart’s, and the Cayman Islands.
Barry loves the MCI, fossil fuels, and the idea of conquering Pipelineistan. Since when has the opinion of his supporters, or the public, mattered to him as much as the cartels whose Boards he is looking forward to sitting on once out of office.
American troops in Afghanistan
Jan 09 35,000
Mar 12 89,000
Oct 12 68,000 (projected)
military cost of Afghanisatan
FY08….$43.5 bn
FY09…..59.5
FY10….104.8 (Obama’s first budget)
FY11….118.6
FY12….113.7
(FY=fiscal year, Oct-Sep)
cumulative cost
Iraq……… $823.3 bn
Afghanistan. 557.1
I suggest, should that happen, we give him a ticket to Afghanistan, with a return scheduled for 2024.
Thanks for that!!!
That’s a…..3+5 = 8 carry the one…….WOW!!! $1.3 TRILLION$$$$$
Don’t think of it as a cost, but rather as helping out those more fortunate than ourselves.
Keith R. Judd, who is serving a prison sentence for extortion, revealed how unpopular Mr. Obama is in West Virginia by taking 41 percent of the presidential primary vote and defeating the incumbent in nine of the state’s 55 counties.
But this did not lead the evening news……
Indeed almost everything we discuss at FDL does not make the evening news.
And sadly – the election will be about jobs – the lack of them, health care and the increase in cost post the HCA solution, and the average wage decline under Bush continuing under Obama – it’s the economy stupid will beat out any civil liberty or foreign affairs concern.
Yeah, but Obysmal personally supports gay marriage, as long as the Afghani provinces think likewise.