Number of Americans Who Say Afghanistan Was a Mistake Hits New High

I believe that our involvements with Afghanistan and Iraq were a mistake. We have poured millions/billions of dollars into a war that is unwinable. In other words the middle east has become our "money pit" and our "Vietnam".

Let the Afghanistan and Iraq people destroy each other. And once the dust clears then we can decide how we can help them. As it is their destiny to decide their own future.

My son is in Afghanistan right now. If your child was there; maybe you wouldnt say you agree we should be there. He has said the place is a huge wasteland. Let them kill each other for sand and rocks over there. Its not worth Americans dying over there. We dont have to win at everything. We lost in VietNam and the world didnt collapse. I rather have my son here than be over there getting attacked all the time.

Say it isn't so...........this is Obamas' "war of necessity." How can it be wrong?

One of the few things Bush did right was to attack Afghanistan and Obama is right to finish it. America did not start this war, but we have an obligation to finish it. For the dead of 9/11 and our dead and wounded soldiers since, we have no choice but to disrupt, disable and kill our enemies. This is NOT the time to turn tail and run like we did in Vietnam.

I will tell you what I think, no one seems to want to look at the facts. We are still giving credit or placing blame along party lines. 1. We were attacked by terrorist that evidence showed were Saudi's not Iraqui's. 2. Evidence showed this act was organized by BinLadin not Sadam Husseine, 3. No evidence showed Iraqu was involved in any way. 4. In conclusion we declared war against Sadam and Iraqu to rid the country of a tyrrant which we did do. 5. So why are we still fighting the people in Iraqu. Tyrant is gone and so should we be. 6. It was our mission to capture and punish those responsible for 911. These terrorist according to our information escaped into afganastan, we pull out troops at least the most and take them into iraqu to go after Husseine and 911 and those responsible were all but forgotten. I am not a politician nor a President but I find something very wrong with this picture. The cost of lives as well as money much like vietnam has been wasted and left our country vulnaberal at home. We let our guard down and we got Pearl Harbor, we let our guard down yet again and we got 911. You have many to place blame on because no one person is responsible. You have Senators and Congressmen as well as out Intelligence and Military people who seem to be never held accountable not to mention a country full of people who have no compassion for their neighbor it's children or anyone else anymore. Take a look in the mirrior people and stop trying to put one persons face in it.

Those of us disappointed with President Obama on the 2 war issue is he should have gotten our troops out 30 days after taking office. Staying the course was not what intelligent people wanted. We are wasting our youth and treasure over there instead of securing our borders. War is big business and we all know who makes out keeping this nonsense going and going and going.

Leave now and reduce military presence in 126 countries we are now in.
Our interstructure is in terrible condition. We need to spend manpower and money on building schools,roads,bridges,and energy systems.
We have spent billions on the military and have not won a war since 1945. Eisenhower warned us about the power of the military and it's need for more money for weapons. We are one of the largest supplier of weapons in the world and we have less peace and appreication world wide.
Has to be a better way. Vote the war mongers out this Fall.

We're getting poorer and the military industrial complex gets richer; war is good for the wealthy who invest in war, Cheney, Bush etc.. It's a Republican, Democratic jobs program. Every Congressmen has a piece of the pie in his or her district, so they vote to keep war going. When we change the way our elected Representatives are elected to public funded elections, nothing will change because the lobbyists will write the legislation to keep the corporate wars going.

If you want to bring democracy to a state that has no democracy, don't send transnational corporations, or the Marines. Send people who will build schools and change the poppy industry to another agricultural product, like hemp, and build a ethanol plant, so they can sell the fuel to us, until they convert their transportation to flexfuel, just like Brazil did. Do something that promotes jobs and industry so that they can become self reliant and have something to sell to the world.

Unfortunately the American public continues to be poorly informed about our reason for attacking Afghanistan. Osama Bin Laden? But he is probably in Pakistan, and the Taliban offered to surrender him to an impartial tribunal after 9/11, an offer which President Bush flatly refused. Al Qaeda? All we have to do is pull in our horns and rein in Israel. Women's rights? That didn't concern us after the Russians were forced to leave, and the women who had begun to think independently because of the Soviets' treatment of them were brutalized by our Afghan allies. It's about oil, specifically, the fact that the Taliban were negotiating with the Bridas Co. of Argentina to build the pipelines, and we wanted them to use Unocal.