Obama draws bipartisan, though narrow, support for new Afghan war plan

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Americans only narrowly support the ‘new way forward’’ that President Obama has announced for the U.S. military in Afghanistan, with 51% supporting the strategy unveiled this week at West Point.

And the public is divided in its confidence that the plan -- adding 30,000 troops by next summer and beginning a troop drawdown in July 2011 -- will succeed. Just 48% see success in the strategy, while 45% say it is unlikely to achieve its aims, according to findings released by the Gallup Poll today.

Notable also is the fact that the president has found bipartisan support for his war plan.

See the rest of the war poll’s findings in The Swamp.

-- Mark Silva