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WASHINGTON — Nearly two-thirds of Americans now say the war in Afghanistan is no longer worth fighting, the highest proportion yet opposed to the conflict, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll.

The finding signals a growing challenge for President Obama as he decides how quickly to pull U.S. forces from the country beginning this summer. After a decade of conflict, political opposition to the battle breaks sharply along partisan lines, with only 19 percent of Democratic respondents and half of Republicans surveyed saying the war continues to be worth fighting.

Nearly three-quarters of Americans say Obama should withdraw a "substantial number" of combat forces from Afghanistan this summer, the deadline he set to begin pulling out some troops. Only 39 percent, however, say they expect him to withdraw large numbers.

The poll results came as Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told Congress the U.S. has halted the Taliban’s momentum in Afghanistan and is on track to hand off security to Afghan forces by 2014, though the gains are "fragile and reversible,"

In a three-hour hearing Tuesday of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Petraeus did not directly respond to the assessment by U.S. intelligence officials that the recent battlefield successes have failed to fundamentally undermine the Taliban as a fighting force.

Instead, Petraeus cited "achievements" while acknowledging that much work is left to be done.

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Via ANCAPS: Two-thirds opposed to war in Afghanistan, poll says

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