Will Afghanistan be an issue in 2012?

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2011-03-15 08:26 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 1058

We have discussed the war in Afghanistan in other posts. Kaboom started a forum discussion back in September, along with several other issues of the day. Rather than letting that issue get lost amongst several other posts, I thought I would start a new thread in view of recent polling that suggests that the American public has turned at that war and is wanting a quick withdrawal.

We also covered it in this forum post: What are we doing in Afghanistan?

Consider these polls/articles that I also posted in Kaboom's series of posts.

Rasmussen Poll: Majority want US Troops out of Afghanistan within a year

Washington Post-ABC Poll: Nearly two-thrids of Americans say Afghan war isn't worth fighting

Huffington Post: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand presses for clear withdrawal plan with "withdrawal of all United States combat forces no later than 2014."

So Obama will be pressed to start substantial withdrawals in July 2011, but will it be enough for the voters in 2012 who are increasingly turning against this war? Will it indeed be a big issue in 2012 if the economy is still slow on recovering and unemloyment remains above 8 percent.

2011-04-24 05:37 AM

Burnface
Parker, AZ
Posts: 51

Obama has thus far proved he is as spineless and autocratic when it comes to the wars, pushing the release dates back multiple times and costing more American lives in the neocons geopolitical forays. Let's face it Blackwater, Halliburton, Raytheon, GE, and Boeing love Obozo as much as Dubya, for the sheer fact he's let the war escalate and is only now implementing a pullout. There is nothing more that can be said most of the public lives in some sort of mass implemented cognitive dissonance, after watching a debate most people still believe the US needs to be the worlds watchdog yet contradictingly claim to be against the wars. Have we all forgotten the Patriot virus that infected our veins during the Bush years, as it slowly reappears in a possible war with Iran? I have no more faith with regards to the bulk of the American public, all of the Cindy Sheehans, mass antiwar demonstrations, and "Bush lied, they died" bumper stickers won't hide the fact not a damned thing will change with our warmongering foreign policy.

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