{"id":39090,"date":"2013-12-30T12:27:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39090"},"modified":"2013-12-30T12:27:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30T17:27:11","slug":"americans-want-out-of-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39090","title":{"rendered":"Americans want out of Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Times<\/a> reports that a new CNN\/ORC poll finds that 82% of Americans want us out of Afghanistan before the arbitrary December 14, 2014 withdrawal date set by the Obama administration.<\/p>\n

The numbers show that the 12-year operation has become one of America\u2019s most unpopular military conflicts CNN reported, and most Americans want U.S. troops to withdraw before the December 2014 deadline date.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose numbers show the war in Afghanistan with far less support than other conflicts,\u201d CNN polling director Keating Holland said. \u201cOpposition to the Iraq was never got higher than 69 percent in CNN polling while U.S. troops were in that country, and while the Vietnam War was in progress, no more than six in 10 ever told Gallup\u2019s interviewers that war was a mistake,\u201d<\/p>\n

Only a quarter of poll respondents said the United States should maintain a military presence in the country after the December 2014 deadline for withdrawal. Fifty-seven percent, meanwhile, said the conflict isn\u2019t going well for the United States \u2014 and only a third think America is winning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I’m part of that 82%, but not because I don’t think what we’re doing in Afghanistan is important, quite the contrary. I think that the more of those Islamists that we kill, the better place is this planet. I supported the war when we first sent CIA and Special Forces troops to help the Northern Alliance boot out the Taliban who had been supporting al Qaeda terrorists. I supported the war in Afghanistan while our goal was to eradicate the area of people who had no respect for basic human dignity. I would still support the war in Afghanistan is our mission there was to kill the human filth there in copious numbers.<\/p>\n

I publicly supported the current administration’s efforts there until the Fall of 2009 when this administration decided that their only mission in Afghanistan was abandoning the country and withdrawing our forces there. This President had the opportunity to show the world that we were serious about our commitment to Afghanistan when the generals asked for 60,000 troops. The CIA and the Defense Department correctly predicted that our operations in Afghanistan would eventually fail if Obama didn’t commit the numbers of troops to the conflict for which the generals were asking. But Obama compromised on the numbers by half to placate politicians long enough for him to be reelected.<\/p>\n

The Obama Administration made the mission in Afghanistan a mere vengeful operation when bin Laden was killed and they farmed the meme that the war was over because the terror master was dead. The war should have been about changing the course of human history, not about the death of one man.<\/p>\n

The Obama Administration’s inability to deal with chief Taliban spokesman, Hamid Karzai, has also poisoned Americans’ opinions regarding the future of Afghanistan. Karzai blames the US for all of Afghanistan’s problems while virtually ignoring the effect the actual enemies of his people are having in the country. Who wants to back an ingrate like Karzai?<\/p>\n

Yes, Americans want out of Afghanistan, but it’s the politicians who are to blame, not the troops or the job they’re trying to do with the half-assed support of their government. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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