Poll: 7 in 10 Afghans support US forces
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I can't believe the AP actually reported somthing positive about Afghanistan for a change.
must be a slow news day for doom and gloom in the war on turrurr...
seriously, if there is something positive to report in that shithole i am sure the media would be fighting each other to break the story first. i am so sick of hearing about how the AP and the rest of the journalists are constantly slagged around here. why lie and paint a rosey picture and present "good news" if there is no good news coming out of there?
i have poll results for you, 51% of all people are in the majority.... :oops:
i did not read the whole article. did it give a sample size??
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
The poll of a national random sample of 1,534 Afghan adults was conducted from Dec. 11 to Dec. 23 by ABC News, the BBC and ARD German TV, their fifth since 2005. The poll has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Field work was done by the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research in Kabul, a subsidiary of D3 Systems Inc. in Vienna, Va.
it also said the numbers are lower in areas with heavy fighting and where the poppy fields are (maybe because we're helping support the main opium smuggler, the president's brother)
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
BTW on more factual news 3 more soldiers were killed in Southern Afghanistan in a firefight. :(
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Poll: 7 in 10 Afghans support US forces
KABUL – Nearly seven in 10 Afghans support the presence of U.S. forces in their country, and 61 percent favor the military buildup of 37,000 U.S. and NATO reinforcements now deploying, according to a poll released Monday.
Support for U.S. and NATO forces, however, drops sharply in the south and east where the fighting is the most intense, the poll said.
Nationwide, 10 percent of Afghans support the Taliban, but the insurgents are backed by a higher percent of the population — 27 percent — in the country's southwest, the poll said.
The poll of a national random sample of 1,534 Afghan adults was conducted from Dec. 11 to Dec. 23 by ABC News, the BBC and ARD German TV, their fifth since 2005. The poll has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. Field work was done by the Afghan Center for Socio-Economic and Opinion Research in Kabul, a subsidiary of D3 Systems Inc. in Vienna, Va.
After steep declines in recent years, nearly seven in 10 Afghans also think their nation is headed in the right direction. That's up 30 percent since January 2009. The number of Afghans who expect their lives will be better a year from now also has jumped 20 percentage points from a year ago — to a new high of 71 percent, the poll said.
Moreover, 61 percent of the Afghans surveyed said they expect the next generation will have a better life — up 14 percent in the past 12 months, according to the poll.
However, Afghans' views about the direction the nation is headed are gloomier in high-conflict areas, such as Helmand province in the south, the heart of the Afghan poppy trade and the Taliban-led insurgency, the poll said.
The survey also said that blame is easing on the U.S. and donor nations.
Overall, 42 percent of Afghans blame the Taliban for the violence — up 27 percent from a year ago. Seventeen percent blame the U.S. and NATO, or the Afghan government or Afghan security forces — down 36 percent from a year ago.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
by president's brother i mean karzai, his brother ahmed who has even made calls and had hundreds of pounds at a time of heroin that were confiscated and had it given back!
what are you but my reflection? who am i to judge or strike you down?
"I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank." - Barack Obama
when you told me 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em'
i was thinkin 'death before dishonor'
I figured the subject block would do....but sure, I'll do it that way next time.
Ah, I see, its lies when it doesn't support your view of the world, but the truth if it does.......
Can someone clue me in?
Hail, Hail!!!
Ah, I see, its lies when it doesn't support your view of the world, but the truth if it does.......[/quote]
na it was a simple question. how many people do you know would be happy a foreign invader came and conquered their hometown?[/quote]
I'm good friends with 3, kind of know 7, and dated 2.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I don't think it has anything to do with conquering. But if we want to ask people how they feel about U.S. entering their teritory.....let's ask Iraq, I don't hear much complaing from over there.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
i was not born yet but i know it happened.
as if the history of this conflict is just going to fade away and in a generation no iraqi is going to know what we did to their country...that will NOT happen...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I remeber Iraqis dancing in the streets when Sadam was toppled, I remember them pulling down his statue and cheering, I remember Iraqis going to the ballot box and voting for who they WANTED for the first time instead of who they HAD to. How about making the families of their fallen loved ones feel like they accomplished something(which they did)instead of making them feel like they died for nothing(which they didn't).
The answer to your question is no, I wouldn't want them to come over here and do that.....even though you make no sense because it is completely different circumstances.
Thats a different outcome then Iraq and hopefully A-stan. If we do pull out of there before its done, it will be like Vietnam, but I'm happy our President didn't make that mistake.
That's a typical sample size. Nothing wrong with it. These types of cluster surveys are used the world over and are relied on by all kinds of organizations for their accuracy.
Creating over 1 million dead, and 5 million refugees, is nothing to feel proud of my friend.
Except the U.S will never allow the Iraqis to freely govern themselves.
in response to MB 26220's post, i doubt that the people that lost loved ones would agree. AND those celebrations were only in specific regions of iraq, not the whole country like you are implying. what about the people that were kept from the ballot box by the warlords? they did not get who they wanted, there was serious evidence of voter fraud, and if US history is consistent with what it has always been, i would bet that somehow that vote came out in favor of someone our military can manipulate into do ing what is good for US, not necessarily what is good for the people of iraq.
the iraqi people did not choose this war, we chose it for them....BIG BIG BIG difference...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
translation:
Field work (who picks the questions and the people to question) was done by a company paid by the government to find results the government wanted the public to see.
Time to refill my xanax.