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It seems like the general population very largely don't support the Taliban, but for whatever reasons the urban populations aren't willing or able to stand up a
by simonh 5y ago
It seems like the general population very largely don't support the Taliban, but for whatever reasons the urban populations aren't willing or able to stand up a credible defence.
I suspect the problem is the Taliban are 'only' instituting Islamic law. It's hard to fire up a Muslim population against implementing, er, Islam even if they are against the actual resulting policies.
- hhsbz 5y agoThey don't based on what, UN polls?
- gccs 5y agoBased on the propaganda shown on msm.
- simonh 5y agoSeven rounds of internationally monitored and accredited national and regional elections over the past two decades.
- hhsbz 5y agoThe turnout of the latest election is 19%
- simonh 5y agoFor several elections it's hovered around the 1/3 mark. That's not bad by regional standards, and bear in mind several large and populous regions in Afghanistan are non-Pushtun and even follow different branches of Islam. There's just no way the Taliban can conceivably command anything more than middling minority support. They just have more guns and a bloodier determination to use them. Unfortunately, as is often the case, that’s all it takes.
- x86_64Ubuntu 5y agoDuring those two decades the country was operating under a western puppet government. The fact that the Taliban swept in so quickly with no resistance means that they were always there to begin with.