According to a new national poll, Americans are split over whether President Barack Obama is taking too long to decide whether to send more US troops to the war in Afghanistan.

By a narrow margin, Americans also think that the president should listen to the recommendations of the generals in charge of US troops in Afghanistan, the CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey indicates.

The poll’s release Wednesday morning comes hours before the president is to meet again with his national security advisers to discuss policy in Afghanistan.

Forty-nine percent of people questioned say the president is taking too long to decide whether to increase US troop levels in Afghanistan while 50 percent do not, according to the survey.

CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said, “There is a gender gap on this question, with most men saying Obama is taking too long and most women willing to give him more time. That’s due in part to the partisan differences between men and women, but gender differences on the use of military force, and maybe even differences in how the genders make important decisions, can also be contributing to the split.”

(article and photo source: CNN)