{"id":3270,"date":"2013-12-31T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3270"},"modified":"2013-12-31T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:52:12","slug":"most-americans-want-troops-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2013\/12\/31\/3270\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans want troops back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/afghanistan_royal_marine_.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>As the year of withdrawal begins, a majority in America wants the US president to pull out his troops from Afghanistan even before the December 2014 deadline, shows a national survey released on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And for the first time in 12 years, support for the US-led war dipped to below 20 per cent, vindicating President Barack Obama\u2019s stand that now is the time to quit Afghanistan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While 82pc told a CNN\/ORC International survey that they were against the war only 17pc said they still supported it. One per cent had no opinion. This makes America\u2019s longest military conflict, which entered its 13th year in October, also its most unpopular. In a similar survey conducted in 2008, 52pc supported the war while 46pc opposed it. Two per cent had no opinion.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In Monday\u2019s survey, more than 50pc said US troops should leave Afghanistan earlier than December 2014. Only a quarter said that America should still have boots on the ground in Afghanistan after the deadline.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fifty-seven pc said the conflict was going badly for the US and only a third said America was winning the war in Afghanistan.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThose numbers show the war in Afghanistan with far less support than other conflicts,\u201d said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. \u201cOpposition to the Iraq war never got higher than 69pc in CNN polling while US 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<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">President Obama plans to pull out most of his combat troops from Afghanistan by December 2014, leaving a behind a smaller but effective force to help the Afghan government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mr Holland said that people with no party affiliation have \u201ca gloomier view\u201d of the war in Afghanistan than Republicans or Democrats. Perhaps, because a Republican president started the war and a Democratic president has continued it, he added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The surveyors noted that so far some 2,300 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan since the war began in the autumn of 2001. They also pointed out that if a bilateral security agreement that would keep up to 10,000 US troops in Afghanistan after the end of 2014 was signed soon, the US could withdraw all forces from Afghanistan at the end of next year.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The poll was conducted for CNN by ORC International between December 16 and 19, with 1,035 adults nationwide questioned by telephone. The survey\u2019s overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two other US national surveys conducted earlier this month also showed similar results. Two-thirds of those questioned in an ABC News\/Washington Post poll said the war has not been worth fighting, and an Associated Press\/GfK survey showed 57pc saying the US did the wrong thing in going to war in Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span> <strong><em>Dawn.com<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the year of withdrawal begins, a majority in America wants the US president to pull out his troops from Afghanistan even before the December 2014 deadline, shows a national survey released on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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