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When President Joe Biden officially announced the end of the longest war in the United States on Tuesday, he did so with the majority of voters backing its end, the election said.
But that same vote suggests that his decision to withdraw from the U.S. in Afghanistan is unpopular, forcing him to accept criticism from Republicans and Democratic allies, flurry of foreign policy and political analysts.
A Pew Research Center poll released on Tuesday found that 54 percent of Americans said it was the right decision to recruit troops in Afghanistan, while 42% said it was the wrong decision.
But only 27 percent rated Biden's handling of the situation as "very good" or "good," while 29 percent rated it "only equally" and 42 percent rated it "poor."
The ABC News / Ipsos poll found that only 38 percent of Americans approved Biden's rule in Afghanistan, and 59 percent did not.
Republicans are using the issue as a political weapon against Biden in the hope that it will hurt the Democratic Party and help them regain control of Congress next fall.
But will Afghanistan be important to voters? Experts are skeptical.
"Foreign policy is not in line with the roads unless American lives or the economy are in direct danger. The Kabul incident will harm Biden in the short term but will only destabilize the party if there is a kidnapping or terrorist attack in Afghanistan," said Jack Pitney, professor of political science at Claremont McKenna College. "If there are no major incidents, most voters will miss Afghanistan a little bit."
Foreign policy is very important for voters in the 2020 and 2018 competitions. A Gallup tracking survey found that in July 2021, only 1 percent identified foreign policy as their top problem, while Middle East wars and conflicts were unbalanced.
House Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Is hopeful that 2022 will be different.
"I believe there must be a response to what I see as a major failure of the US government in the military sector in my life," he told reporters on Tuesday.
Biden opposed his criticism in Tuesday's speech from the White House, saying he was left with a difficult decision because of former President Donald Trump's agreement with the Taliban to end American presence in Afghanistan. He said the only option he had was "to move quickly or to bring in thousands of troops to fight the Taliban as they quickly took over the country.