{"id":2259,"date":"2010-07-16T02:05:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T09:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2010-07-16T02:05:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T09:05:35","slug":"afghanistan-still-a-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/16\/afghanistan-still-a-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan: Still a Black Hole?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ongoing war still has more support than I would like to see, but will it matter?<\/font><\/p>\n

Here are the results of a new poll:<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"16afghanistan\"<\/a> Some 44 percent of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan, a significant rise from earlier this year, according to a CBS news poll released Thursday.<\/p>\n

In CBS’s last poll in May, only 37 percent of those questioned disapproved of the president’s approach to the conflict now in its ninth year.<\/p>\n

Some 43 percent of those polled approve of Obama’s policies, about the same as the 44 percent who said they approved in May. But the number of undecideds dropped from 19 percent to 13 percent.<\/p>\n

A majority of Americans believe the war is going either "somewhat" or "very badly" (62 percent) jumped from 49 percent in May\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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I have to that the case for war can be somewhat compelling.  In a special report, Rachel Maddow, who recently traveled to Afghanistan, presented the case for war in a clear and unbiased matter.  Then she came to the same conclusion I have repeatedly expressed for the same reason.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Any COIN strategy cannot outperform the quality and integrity of the government that strategy is supporting.  No matter how pure our intentions, no matter how good a job out troops do (and the have performed admirably), no matter how many skirmishes we win, etc., in the end we\u2019re left with Hamid Karzai.  Now freed from serving the purpose for which he was installed, to be the puppet for GW Bush and the Republican party, he now serves a purpose almost equally corrupt, his own self-interest.  With the scant quality and zero integrity his government provides, we have an unreachable goal.  To ask more troops to be killed and maimed in such a scenario is wrong.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ongoing war still has more support than I would like to see, but will it matter? Here are the results of a new poll: Some 44 percent of Americans disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghanistan, a significant rise from earlier this year, according to a CBS news poll released […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}