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Poll: Majority in US now see Afghan war as not worth fighting
AFP
Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2009
Support for the US mission in Afghanistan has
slipped to a new low, with 44 percent of Americans now saying
the war there has been worth the cost, according to a recently
released poll.
Amid mounting divisiveness over what was once one of President
Barack Obama's top foreign policy issues, the poll by The Washington
Post and ABC News also showed ratings for how he has handled
the mission there eroding, to 45 percent approving of how he
is dealing with Afghanistan and 47 disapproving, compared to
63 percent approval last year.
The numbers come as Obama grapples with whether to send more
US troops to Afghanistan to boost the fight against a growing
Taliban-led insurgency, just a week after a stopover at a US
military base in Alaska at the start of his Asia trip when he
told US troops he will get "public support back home"
for the mission.
Only 44 percent now say the war in Afghanistan has been worth
fighting -- the fewest since early 2007 -- and 52 percent say
it has not, up 13 points from its low of last December, the
news outlets' polling divisions said.
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