---
title: "Losing Ground in Afghanistan"
description: "Roughly a third of Americans feel we are losing ground in Afghanistan."
date: "2009-01-12"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2009/01/12/losing-ground-in-afghanistan/"
---

# Losing Ground in Afghanistan

Americans are less positive about progress made in Afghanistan then they are about progress in Iraq. Roughly a third believe we are losing ground in Afghanistan (31%) and 42% think the situation is the same as it has been. About one-in-five say progress is being made in the war. Republicans are far more pessimistic about Afghanistan than Iraq: 37% say America is making progress in Afghanistan, compared with 62% who say the same about the war in Iraq. Few Democrats see the country making progress in either conflict (16% Iraq, 10% Afghanistan). [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1070/few-see-progress-except-on-minority-discrimination)