Obama Urged to Rally Support for War

[Midnight Mike]

With casualties rising, the administration is struggling to persuade voters that the war can be won or is worth the human and financial costs. Afghanistan is President Barack Obama's top foreign-policy priority, but recent polls show that a majority of voters oppose the war for the first time since the conflict began eight years ago.

Still, a raft of recent polls shows that support for the war is falling rapidly, especially among Mr. Obama's core Democratic and independent constituencies. A CNN/ORC poll late last month found that 74% of Democrats and 57% of independents opposed the war, dragging overall support for the conflict down to 42%.


A U.S. soldier patrols Kabul on Thursday. In a national poll published Tuesday by CNN, 57% of those questioned opposed the war in Afghanistan.
The CNN poll found that Republican support for the conflict was holding solid at 70%, highlighting the awkward fact that Mr. Obama's strongest allies on the war are Republican lawmakers who oppose most other parts of his agenda.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125201944159884863.html

[T-Bird76]

We can't afford to pull out of Afghanistan, within weeks it would be overrun by Taliban forces and turn once again into a base of operation. The one thing the press really needs to get is the U.S doesn't need a total victory in the Middle East. The goal being there is simple, disrupt organizations and Gov'ts within the region so that they are concentrated on regional affairs and cannot afford to look outside their boarders. We can create a Middle East that is just stable enough that it won't collapse yet with enough regional issues to keep the Gov'ts in the region busy so that none become to powerful.