Most Want Some Troops in Afghanistan Despite Strong Criticism of the War

Two-thirds of Americans say the war in Afghanistan hasn’t been worth fighting, but 55 percent nonetheless favor keeping some U.S. forces there for training and counterinsurgency purposes, a new ABC News/Washington Post poll has found.

Public support for a smaller but continued U.S. military presence is steady despite the current controversy over a bilateral security agreement between the United States and Afghanistan, whose president, Hamid Karzai, has balked at signing a negotiated accord. CONT.

Damla Ergun, ABC News

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