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Republicans and Democrats agree that the Afghanistan war wasn’t worth it

By LINLEY SANDERS and
REBECCA SANTANA
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time
when Americans are deeply di-
vided along party lines, a new
poll shows considerable agree-
ment on at least one issue: The
United States’ two-decade-
long war in Afghanistan was not
worth fighting.
The poll from the Pearson Insti-
tute for the Study and Resolution
of Global Conflicts and The As-
sociated Press-NORC Center for
Public Affairs Research comes
two years after the U.S. pulled
out of Afghanistan in August
2021 and the Taliban returned
to power. The war was started to
go after the masterminds of the
Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
and the Taliban who allowed
them to use Afghan territory. It
ended in frantic scenes of Af-
ghans and Americans desper-
ately trying to get on one of the
last flights out of Kabul.
U.S. soldiers and Afghan security forces search the site where a suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a NATO convoy
killing two foreign civilian contractors, in the Afghan capital Kabul, Afghanistan, Feb. 10, 2014.
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