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All in all, considering the costs to the United States versus the benefits to the United States, do you think the war in Afghanistan has been worth fighting, or not?
Worth fighting 39%
Not worth fighting 56%
Among Democrats
Worth fighting 34%
Not worth fighting 61%
Among Republicans
Worth fighting 55%
Not worth fighting 39%
Among Independents
Worth fighting 38%
Not worth fighting 58%
In this world Hate
never yet dispelled hate.
Only love dispels hate.
This is the law,
Ancient and inexhaustible.
- Buddha
Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Put on your flame proof clothing.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)Well.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)forestpath
(3,102 posts)MisterP
(23,730 posts)not "innocent victims"
though if you bring up the strikes targeting second responders and any random gathering of sufficiently tall people, or the redefinition of "militant" as "anyone 16-60," they just yell that you're a Murka-hatin' reactionary Communislamofasconaderbot
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)msongs
(67,193 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)on purpose or not, do the victims feel like it was an act of terror?
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Thanks for posting that!
BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)In that theoretically the U.S. does not intend to kill civilians. However, we certainly seem to think that killing civilians is an acceptable and predictable side effect of our actions.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Instead, the survivors become our mortal enemies.
BlueCheese
(2,522 posts)Poll_Blind
(23,864 posts)PB
Carolina
(6,960 posts)was a huge act of terrorism! Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. It was an INNOCENT nation full of innocent civilians who died, have been maimed or whose lives have been destroyed because of the US terrorism.
The so-called war may be over but the ramifications, the destruction and the destabilization live on. So too does the simmering hatred. There will be hell to pay!
KoKo
(84,711 posts)That doesn't always end up good in the end for one choosing that course.... Sometimes...but, it can bite you in the ass..down the road.
leftstreet
(36,076 posts)DU Rec