Issue 75

How should Americans assess the recent chaos in Afghanistan?

The Afghan self-inflicted disaster is the greatest American strategic, political, and military defeat of the past 50 years.

27%

An American contingent in Afghanistan was still viable to deter the Taliban and to facilitate U.S. air operations.

27%

The staying or leaving is not the problem; the terrible manner in which we left is.

29%

Despite the chaos, making a clean break now from Afghanistan is better than a costly one later on.

5%

Ignore the media: the U.S. was right to leave—and did so in the best way given the circumstances.

12%