For First Time Ever, America Thinks Afghan War Was a 'Mistake'

[Hyperion]

Afghanistan never came out of stone age, minus Kabul. What Muslims? Tell me one true Muslim alive on this planet and I'll donate both of my nads......

P.S. Afghanistan is my playground, not yours. It's us who pushed them back, AQ has been taking credit for too long now, if they were that good, puny Israel wouldn't have been bashing them around for over a century.

They brought Afghanistan to the middle age with Al Qaeda to ease their invasion, they use muslims as toys in their playground and they are legit?

 

[Fukuoka]

A true muslim is for me Hezbollah, Iran, loyalist syrian, partisans of Sissi, any sunni who prefers fighting NATO/Israel than the shia

A person behaving like a civilized person for the pride of Islam. He can be dressed like a westerner, but not beheading and screaming Allah Ackbar to ashame his religion for the zionists

Zionist Al Qaeda, salafists are of course excluded

I think NATO has created AQ from saudis + Pakistan. It was not the "secular" pakistanis who fought against the russians

 

[SQ8]

If you look hard.. there are Americans who consider coming to America as a mistake. The country is a myraid of opinions.. and more importantly.. people with hopes and aspirations regarding their daily life. If something is viewed as detrimental to their daily life.. then they will not like it. The Moon Landings are also considered a mistake by some.. but the progress they brought due to the program in technology was critical.

 

[Developereo]

It was, and still is legit:

"Gallup's telephone interviews were conducted from Feb. 6-9 among a random sample of 1,023 adults. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points."

Barely a thousand adults surveyed by phone with a 4 percent margin of error is not what "America thinks" as a "mistake", but wow, what an exaggerated thread title.

Statistics 101.

Most national polls have sample sizes in the range 1000-1500 people. That is considered a large enough sample (if random) to gauge wider trends.

 

[VCheng]

Statistics 101.

Most national polls have sample sizes in the range 1000-1500 people. That is considered a large enough sample (if random) to gauge wider trends.

Of course. Once OBL was killed, the main reason for the war in people's opinions was fulfilled. Why drag on a war any more than necessary? There is no real news here.

 

[Developereo]

Of course. Once OBL was killed, the main reason for the war in people's opinions was fulfilled. Why drag on a war any more than necessary? There is no real news here.

The report doesn't say Americans feel the war has been won and is no longer needed.
It says the war should never have been fought in the first place with soldiers on the ground.

A plurality of Americans now believes that it was a mistake to send soldiers to fight in Afghanistan after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001,

 

[KingMamba]

Afghanistan was not a mistake this poll just shows war fatigue.

Iraq however was a huge blunder and end result was a failure.

 

[VCheng]

The report doesn't say Americans feel the war has been won and is no longer needed.
It says the war should never have been fought in the first place with soldiers on the ground.

It all depends on how the questions are worded.

 

[BATMAN]

This was banned in Pakistan.

This was banned by Asif Ali Zardari.

 

[Developereo]

It all depends on how the questions are worded.

I suspect what this is saying is that people believe America's objectives could have been achieved through air power alone, plus targeted SEAL team operations, and there was no need for actual troops on the ground.

Those objectives were to dismantle AQ training camps and to punish OBL. Removing the Taliban from power was not relevant and turned out to be a Sisyphean task, given current predictions of their return.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Afghanistan is known as the "Graveyard of Empires" for a reason.

 

[Hakan]

Afghanistan is known as the "Graveyard of Empires" for a reason.

except for turkic empires

 

[VCheng]

I suspect what this is saying is that people believe America's objectives could have been achieved through air power alone, plus targeted SEAL team operations, and there was no need for actual troops on the ground.

Those objectives were to dismantle AQ training camps and to punish OBL. Removing the Taliban from power was not relevant and turned out to be a Sisyphean task, given current predictions of their return.

Your suspicions are probably closer to the reality than what the title of thread claims.

 

[MastanKhan]

It was legit till the day Laden died.........

Hi,

It was legit till the day they let osama escape at tora bora----after that it became illegal.

 

[pakdefender]

Most Americans by now perhaps see the futility of their war in Afghanistan but still the Hindu and the 'American Janissary' think otherwise