About half of the public says the U.S. has "mostly failed in Afghanistan % who say that the USS in achieving its goals in Afghanistan
Seventeen years into the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, Americans remain pessimistic about U.S. efforts in the country. About half of adults (49%) say the United States has mostly failed in achieving its goals there, while about a third (35%) say it has mostly succeeded, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Another 16% say they do not know if the U.S. has succeeded or failed.
Republicans are now more optimistic than Democrats that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan has succeeded in achieving its goals, according to the new survey, conducted Sept. 18-24 among 1,754 adults. About half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents (48%) say the U.S. has succeeded, compared with about three-in-ten Democrats and Democratic leaning independents (28%).
About half of the public says the U.S.  | has "mostly failed in Afghanistan  | % who say that the USS  | in achieving its goals  | in Afghanistan  | Will succeed  | Has mostly  | 56  | 620- a  | failed  | 58  | 49  | 38"  | 35  | 290  | 36  | Has mostly  | Will fail  | succeded  | 2009  | 2012  | 2015  | 2018  | % achieving who say that goals the USS has mostly succeeded in  | achieving its goals in.Afghanistan  | Rep/Lean Rep  | 72  | 59  | 40  | 48  | 57  | Dem/Lean Dem  | 28  | 33  | 29  | 2009  | 2012  | 2015  | 2018  | Note: Don't know responses not shown.  | Source: Survey of US adults conducted Sept 18-24 2018  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 