美国和英国的民意调查显示，在星期三纪念阿富汗开战八周年这一天，两国民众对战争支持率有所下滑。
美联社的一项新民意调查显示，美国民众对这场战争的支持率为40%，比7月份比下降了4%。英国国家广播公司所做的一项调查显示，56%的英国民众反对这场战争。
这种不满部分因为在打击塔利班的战争中不断上升的伤亡人数。西班牙国防部说，西班牙军队的装甲车在西部小镇赫拉特触上地雷，导致已经士兵丧生，另外五名士兵受伤。阿富汗内政部长说，在东部的加兹尼省，一枚由反叛分子发射的火箭击中一辆大巴，炸死一人，炸伤25人。
Opinion polls in the United States and Britain indicate that on the eighth anniversary of the start of the war in Afghanistan (Wednesday), public support for the conflict is slipping.
A new Associated Press poll finds Americans’ support for the war at 40 percent, down four percent from July.In Britain, 56 percent of people surveyed in a BBC poll said they oppose the war.
The discontent stems, in part, from increasing war casualties as troops struggle to contain the Taliban insurgency.Spain’s defense ministry says one Spanish soldier was killed and five others were wounded Wednesday when their vehicle hit a land mine near the western town of Herat.In eastern Ghazni province, Afghanistan’s interior ministry says an insurgent rocket hit a bus, killing two civilians and wounding about 25.