Thursday, October 29, 2009

More Stupid Poll Questions

This time courtesy of a Fox News poll. They are asking who is more determined to win the war in Afghanistan: President Obama or al-Qaeda/the Taliban? First of all, al-Qaeda and the Taliban are now two very distinct entities. Some in the Taliban might be sympathetic to al-Qaeda, but many are just fighting because they oppose the Karzai government. Furthermore, the question should be whether the American people want to win the war more than al-Qaeda and the Taliban, and well, they're kind of all over the place.

No such question was asked in their poll during the previous eight years of the war. I have no idea why that could be...

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