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Opinion Poll: 90% disagree with withdrawal process
Take a look at any major news outlet and you’ll immediately face a litany of opinions related to the Afghanistan withdrawal. These opinions may cover topics such as timeliness, appropriateness, and who is to blame for the shortcomings of the drawdown.
Pop Smoke Media recently hosted a virtual poll on the matter, with a simple ‘yes’ or ‘no’ response mechanism attached.
Withdrawal opinions
Two questions were asked in the poll:
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“Do you agree with the way the drawdown was conducted?” and “Do you think it was time to leave Afghanistan?”
Nearly 20,000 people responded to the questions, yielding a fairly interesting point. Especially when considering that the majority of those who find us tolerable enough to respond to our current and former members of the military.
Of the 20,000-some-odd individuals who chose to respond to the first question, “Do you agree with the way the drawdown was conducted?”, 90% of them answered ‘no.’
This leaves the assumption that those in uniform, and those whose interests intersect with them, vastly agree that the plans for the withdrawal from Afghanistan were ill-suited for the task at hand.
When answering the second question, “Do you think it was time to leave Afghanistan?”, an even more surprising response was received. For this question, 56% of respondents said ‘yes,’ while the remaining 44% replied ‘no.’
The fact to be taken from these responses is that those who feel closest to the situation, especially the few that have risked their lives in the very same context, feel that what was done was simply not enough. The majority, albeit a slim one, agree that it was time to withdraw, but that, when push came to shove, it was done improperly.
While these are simply opinions, the demographic that they come from holds considerable weight. Only time will tell who is right, and especially, who is wrong.
