{"id":876694,"date":"2019-07-11T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/?p=876694"},"modified":"2019-07-11T14:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T09:55:17","slug":"not-worth-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/not-worth-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Worth Fighting\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_97896\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97896\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/us-exit-afghanistan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/us-exit-afghanistan.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/us-exit-afghanistan-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-97896\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Wakil Kohsar\u2014AFP<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<h6>New poll finds majority of U.S. veterans are against the Afghanistan war<\/h6>\n<p>A majority of U.S. military veterans say the nearly 18-year war in Afghanistan was \u201cnot worth fighting,\u201d according to poll results released on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The survey results come as the U.S. and the Taliban engage in talks on bringing to a close the conflict, which Washington launched in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMajorities of both veterans (58 percent) and the public (59 percent) say the war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. About four-in-ten or fewer say it was worth fighting,\u201d according to the Pew Research Center.<\/p>\n<p>The same held for the war in Iraq and the U.S. military intervention against the Islamic State group in Syria, with 64 percent of veterans saying the former was \u201cnot worth fighting,\u201d and 55 percent saying the latter was \u201cnot worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVeterans who served in either Iraq or Afghanistan are no more supportive of those engagements than those who did not serve in these wars. And views do not differ based on rank or combat experience,\u201d the Pew Research Center said.<\/p>\n<p>The polling had a margin of error of 3.9 percent for veterans and 3.1 percent for members of the general public.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has said it wants to seal a political deal with the Taliban, ahead of Afghan presidential polls due in September, to allow foreign forces to begin to withdraw. The United States held six days of talks in Qatar with the Taliban, which ran until Saturday. Those discussions paused for Sunday and Monday\u2019s Afghan summit, which saw around 70 delegates including the Taliban discuss the future of the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New poll finds majority of U.S. veterans are against the Afghanistan war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":97896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,54],"tags":[30,2331,7563,868,411,53,1756,17632,413],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/us-exit-afghanistan.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pakistanstandard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}