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| Survey: Nearly Half of Afghans Want US Troops Out after Deal |
| 2020-01-24 |
| [AP via Mil.com] KABUL, Afghanistan ‐ Nearly half of all Afghans want U.S. and NATO troops to leave Afghanistan once a peace deal to end the country's 18-year war is signed with the Taliban, according to a survey released Thursday. The American Institute of War and Peace Studies also found that an overwhelming 80% of Afghans surveyed said a political solution was the only way to bring about an end to fighting, Twenty percent said a military solution was possible. The survey found that 46% of Afghans want U.S. and NATO troops out of the country once a deal is struck, while 33% would have them stay. The survey polled 5,038 Afghans in 34 provinces. It was conducted between Nov. 23-Dec. 20 and has a 5% margin of error. Sixty-one percent of participants answered online with the remaining 39% were interviewed in person. While 57% of those surveyed wanted the Taliban to evict the foreign fighters among them. Many of those foreigners are believed to have links to al-Qaida and other militant organizations. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #28 They want US troops out but 300% increase in aid. Good luck with that. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 16:41 |
| #27 33% eh, well that's better than parts of Washington, Oregon, and California. Should have built a superhighway from Karachi to Kabul. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-01-24 15:25 |
| #26 Enough is enough. Either we stay, depopulate the place of people who annoy us and take what we want, or we leave. The only reason to be there should be our interest. I vote leave and spray the poppy fields with persistent nerve agents on the way out. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2020-01-24 13:39 |
| #25 Hello, what about the Afghan rare metals? That country has some of the world's richest deposits. We sure as hell don't want the chinese getting them. Not to mention the jihadists. I have no solution simply pointing out a major issue. |
| Posted by: Woodrow 2020-01-24 13:20 |
| #24 we need to keep Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for them. offer Pathans bounties for foreign jihadis. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-01-24 13:11 |
| #23 That’s a country that wants a lot of hunter-killer teams. The problem is that there is a cultural propensity to produce jihadis, and many of them will happily go from battleground to battleground like the Turkmen, etc that Turkey is currently moving from Syria to Libya. If we don’t want them to flow elsewhere, we need to keep Afghanistan from once again becoming a safe haven for them. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2020-01-24 13:08 |
| #22 ^Tribalism, IMO, is genetic. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2020-01-24 13:07 |
| #21 unless staying involves De-Islamification, (it never will), there's no reason to waste lives & treasure on neanderthals |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2020-01-24 13:00 |
| #20 Ditto #7 and #10: Stay on to do what, exactly? |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-01-24 10:34 |
| #19 Half of Americans want US troops out (of America) - except if they're used to disarm the other half of Americans. |
| Posted by: Procopius2K 2020-01-24 10:20 |
| #18 #17 Keep a couple kill teams on standby in the region to go after the really motivated American haters and leave the rest of it to rot.Posted by DarthVader Don't forget to napalm and salt the poppy fields on the way out. |
| Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 2020-01-24 10:07 |
| #17 Keep a couple kill teams on standby in the region to go after the really motivated American haters and leave the rest of it to rot. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-01-24 09:30 |
| #16 Herb must be sleeping in today. We deserve a report on what he was drinking last night. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 08:50 |
| #15 NB: That was a quote from my Warmonger NeoConning in #7 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-24 08:34 |
| #14 Number Ten has it right. It's the 'staying on' that leads to debacle. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-24 08:32 |
| #13 Tribalism sucks ass. No wonder dems like it so much. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 08:32 |
| #12 I'm PeeAye I saw people put salt in their beer. All the more reason to have a side water glass of Wild Turkey neat. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 08:30 |
| #11 Punitive expedition w JDAMs works for me. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-24 08:29 |
| #10 "Go in when you have to, break things and people, and leave." My position, exactly. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2020-01-24 08:27 |
| #9 No three cups of tea for me, though. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-24 08:26 |
| #8 Yes but would you have some 'erb wif' your beer? You may talk of gin and beer... |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-24 08:24 |
| #7 I don't disagree with Herb on all issues btw. We shouldn't be in the Nation-Building mission where the locals are too tribal and/or primitive to make it work. Go in when you have to, break things and people, and leave |
| Posted by: Frank G 2020-01-24 08:23 |
| #6 Herb is a resource here. He keeps us honest. I'd actually like to have a beer with Herb. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 08:17 |
| #5 Now, I don't disagree wit' your conclusion, guv'nah. But - beggin' your pardon, Sir - 'twas you what brought 'Erb into it. |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-24 08:06 |
| #4 Easy to trivialize an issue by bringing Herb into it. But the Stan is a total waste of American resources. We need to fucking leave. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 07:57 |
| #3 Now it's 'Erbie this, an' 'Erbie that, and "Chuck him out, the brute!" But it's Saviour of 'is Website when the pixels start to shoot |
| Posted by: Lex 2020-01-24 07:49 |
| #2 I agree with Herb and Andrew Bacevich on this. That's saying something. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 07:40 |
| #1 I think better than 75% of US voters agree... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-01-24 07:38 |