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Afghanistan another Vietnam?
by Mark Silva
"This is not Vietnam in many respects," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a reported interview during his latest trip to Afghanistan.
"We are here in Afghanistan because people attacked us here in the most significant attack against the United States since Pearl Harbor,'' said Kerry, Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman and decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. "We are here because there are still people at large who are plotting against the United States of America. And we are here because the stability of this region is of critical strategic interest to the United States."
Roughly half of the Americans surveyed disagree with Kerry's characterization of Afghanistan as not another Vietnam. But, in the midst of deliberations at the White House about the best way forward for U.S. troops in Afghanistan after eight years of war there, ttalk about conflicting public opinion at home:
Most people surveyed59 percent in a new CNN/Opinion Research poll released today- say they oppose deploying additional troops to Afghanistan. Just 39 percent support sending more troops.
Nearly half favor the idea of either withdrawing from Afghanistan28 percentor reducing the number of troops there21 percent.
Yet most61 percentsay they consider the war in Afghanistan to be "part of the war on terrorism which began on September 11, 2001.
And most60 percentsay it is necessary for the U.S. to keep troops in Afghanistan.
Few, however, think it is likely over the next five years that Afghanistan will have a democratic government that won't be overthrown by terrorists or the Talibanjust 31 percent. Few think it is likely that the Afghan military and police will be able to maintain safety and security without the assistance of the U.S.31 percent.
And few think it unlikely that Afghanistan will be able to prevent terrorists from using the nation as a base of operations for planning attacks against the U.S.33 percent.
And, asked if "the war in Afghanistan has turned into a situation like the United States faced in the Vietnam War,'' 52 percent say they believe it has. And 46 percent say it hasn't.
58,000 American soldiers -- and John Kerry -- are hoping the 46 percent are right.
The survey of 1,038 adults was conducted by Opinion Research Corp. between Oct. 16 and 18, with a possible margin of error of plus or minus 3 points.
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