A majority of Americans (58%) approve of the decision to withdraw all troops. That support is higher among Democrats (74%), Independents (59%), and those in military households (61%) than it is among Republicans (45%). Those currently serving in the military (52%) or who have served in the past (53%) agree that U.S. troops should leave Afghanistan.
Afghanistan may not have started out as a divisive war (at the start, nearly nine in ten in a CBS News Poll favored military action there), but it became one. One-third of Americans (36%) now describe it as a mistake; one-third (35%) don’t see it that way. Three in 10 adults (29%) aren’t sure whether it was a mistake or not.
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