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A majority of Americans - 53 percent - say the United States should not be involved in Afghanistan. Only 36 percent say the U.S. is doing the right thing in fighting there. Republicans are more likely than Democrats to support the war, but even among that group, 43 percent say the United States should not be involved.
Still, more Americans say the war is going well - 48 percent - than say it is going badly - 42 percent.
Fifty-eight percent of Americans say troop levels should be decreased in Afghanistan, including 68 percent of Democrats. Twenty-seven percent want troop levels kept where they are, and 8 percent want them increased. President Obama announced in June that the 33,000 so-called "surge" troops he deployed to Afghanistan would be home by September 2012, though that would still leave nearly 70,000 troops in the country.
More than three in four Americans - 77 percent - approve of Mr. Obama’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year. That includes 63 percent of Republicans. Seventeen percent overall disapprove of the decision.
Two in three Americans, including half of Republicans, say the Iraq war was not worth the loss of life and costs that came with it. Just 24 percent say the war was worth it.