ბრიტანულმა "გარდიან"-მა გამოაქვეყნა სტატია ავღანეთში ჩატარებული პოლის შედეგების შესახებ. პოლის შედეგები ერთმნიშვნელოვნად მიუთითებს ავღანელი ხალხის მზარდ ოპტიმიზმზე. გამოკითხულთა 70% თვლის, რომ ავღანეთი სწორ გზას ადგია. ამ ერთი წლის წინ მხოლოდ 40% იყო ოპტიმისტურად განწყობილი. პოლის შედეგების მიხედვით, ამავე პერიოდში გაიზარდა ყარზაის მხარდაჭერაც 52%-დან 72%-მდე.
რას იტყვით უზერებო, ამართლებთ ავღანელების ასეთ ოპტიმიზმს ?
P.S. სტატიაში არაფერია ნათქვამი თუ რას ეწევიან პოლში გამოკითხულები. ჩემის ჰაზრით ეგეც უნდა ეკითხათ
Afghans more optimistic about future, poll suggestsDespite mounting casualties among Nato troops, 70% of population think country is heading in right direction
Matthew Weaver and agencies
guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 January 2010 17.34 GMT
Afghans feel more optimistic about the future, according to a survey published on Nato's bloodiest day in Afghanistan for two months.
Against a backdrop of mounting violence, 70% of the population believe their country is heading in the right direction, up from 40% in 2009, according to a poll for the BBC, ABC News and the German broadcaster, ARD. Support for Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has also increased from 52% 12 months ago to 72% now, despite a lack of trust in the disputed presidential ballot last August and his problems in appointing a cabinet.
The poll was published as Nato announced that six Nato troops, including three Americans and a French officer were killed in separate incidents, making it the deadliest day for the international force in more than two months.
The latest casualties come amid warnings that the bloodshed will increase as more foreign troops are deployed. President Barack Obama is sending an additional 30,000 US soldiers, bringing the total US deployment to 98,000.
General Stanley McChrystal, the top US commander in Afghanistan and the architect of the troop surge, said he believed the reinforcements were starting to turn the tide against the Taliban.
In an interview broadcast on ABC television today, McChrystal said he believed the troop surge had "changed the way we operate in Afghanistan" and was slowing the Taliban's momentum. But he conceded: "It's not a completed mission yet."
McChrystal said he was encouraged by a recent meeting he held in a former Taliban stronghold. "When I sit in an area that the Taliban controlled only seven months ago and now you meet with a shura [a traditional meeting] of elders and they describe with considerable optimism the future, you sense the tide is turning," he said.
His comments echoed remarks the head of the British army, General Sir David Richards, made yesterday. Richards told the BBC that the mission would benefit from more soldiers, but this would be another "tough year".
Last year was the most costly for UK forces since the Falklands war in 1982, with 108 troops killed in Afghanistan. Richards said he expected the level of British casualties to start decreasing by the end of this year.
"I personally anticipate as we get this business of mass right ‑ the numbers of boots on the ground, a result of allied enhancements and a growth in the Afghan army and police ‑ that I would see a diminishing level of casualties from the end of this year," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Support for Nato troops is up slightly from 59% in 2009 to 62% now, according to the BBC poll of more than 1,500 Afghans. Only 8% of those polled thought attacks on foreign troops could be justified, compared with 25% last year.
But the survey also uncovered serious concerns about corruption within the government and police, with 95% of those questioned saying it was a problem in their area and 44% saying things were worse than a year ago. Only 39% believed last year's election was conducted honestly and 59% thought the counting of votes was fraudulent. The Taliban remain very unpopular: 69% of Afghans think they pose the greatest danger to the country's future.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/1...s-poll-optimism This post has been edited by caliber on 12 Jan 2010, 01:36 Gandhi once said, "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win."
ოპტიმისტური განწყობილება ავღანეთში, ავღანეთსი ჩატარებული პოლის შედეგები
