Poll: 7 in 10 Afghans support US forces

Holy Shit !!!
I can't believe the AP actually reported somthing positive about Afghanistan for a change.

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

prfctlefts wrote:

Holy Shit !!!
I can't believe the AP actually reported somthing positive about Afghanistan for a change.

:roll:

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??

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)

yeah 1534 afghans is a huge number to ask.....here is the text of the article. IMO the title of the article rings much more positive than some other aspects of the entie text....what about the 27% or nearly 3/10 that support the insurgents?

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.

Pepe Silvia wrote:

gimmesometruth27 wrote:

prfctlefts wrote:

Holy Shit !!!
I can't believe the AP actually reported somthing positive about Afghanistan for a change.

:roll:

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??

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)

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!

Is this good news or bad news?
Can someone clue me in?

Cosmo wrote:

Is this good news or bad news?
Can someone clue me in?

i am confused too... :?

mb262200 wrote:

Commy wrote:

OffHeGoes29 wrote:

bump

lies. how many people do you know would be happy a foreign invader came and conquered them?

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.

only because you quit paying attention. its not covered in mainstream media...would you like it if they came over here and took over things?