Do people in Afghanistan want the Taliban ?

first let me make myself clear. this is a genuine question after a series of personal interviews with just 2 afghans. both of which have caused me massive confusion !!! the reason i say this is because i thought that afghans were alll very educated, holding advanced college degrees and were sophisticated intelligent society wanting a CIVIL SOCIETY.

now enter my 2 afghan friends that poke a hole in my balloon and sending that idea crashing back to reality. they tell me overwhelmingly that afghanistan for the most part is a rural undeveloped country with maybe 3 or 4 metropolitan cities. (kabul, kandehar, and Mazari Sharif)

Literacy rate of the country is only 25%. Meaning 75% of the nation is ILLITERATE !!!!! But i said "so what, doesn’t mean they don’t want democracy" Then they cornered me in the arguement and asked me a series of questions i couldn’t answer . so i thought i present them to the afghans on this forum and to get a wider range of answers. Because these ex-patriots of afghanistan were really trying to paint that afghans DESERVE Taliban rule since their thinking is so alike. anyways here are the questions they asked me…..

Since Afghanistan is a Patriarch Society i’m going to put this in a male context….. since their the ones with the guns and alllll. (cause the most trouble)

1) Does an average Afghan man want his Wife to have a College Education ??

2) Does an average Afghan man want a Civil Society with Rule of Law butting in and telling him to NOT BEAT HIS WIFE ???

3) Does an average Afghan man want a Society that respects Individual Rights that allow people to have any hairstyle they like or choose whatever clothing they like ??

4) Does an average Afghan man want a Civil Society that is Governed by Rule of Law that tells him he can’t sell his daughter off to pay a debt ??

5) Does the average Afghan want a Civil Society which tells him that he must send his children to school for an education rather than forcing them unto the streets to work ????

—i mean with a Taliban Rule this is all Zabiha/Halal and is not a problem. But in a DEMOCRACTIC government this is NOT ALLOWED. so u tell me do afghans WANT A DEMOCRACY ??? or do they want Taliban but just a Lighter version of it ??????
EDIT ::: yaaaah i agree. i’m beginning to understand. People of Afghanistan and Taliban is a Love/Hate Marriage. i think a simple majority of the populace WANT Taliban. i mean, sure, there are people who want Democracy but they are the minority. I would say 60% want Taliban and 40% want Democracy. And that’s why America’s effort will FAIL in the long run. Because Afghans just like their way of life the way it is. to me it’s sad but hey if that’s what the majority want then that’s what they will get sooner or laaater



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1)How do you get your girl back, who for some reason thinks she is happier alone then in a relationship, when the only problem of the happiness was confusion from being with me and liking other people?

2)How do you get that same girl to fall back in love with you?

This is important to me. One Month ago we were engaged. Never had a problem, until some jackass showed up and confused her. Not going to give story though, just these two questions. If I can’t find the answers then my world is not going to exist… I don’t want to lose the girl of my dreams.

please someone out there, help.
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Plus i’ve gone through way way way too much to just give up, i don’t care how hard the answer is or if it sucks my lifeforce with a straw, i believe this girl and me are meant to be! and I can either just sit back and wait till she realizes how much I mean to her and come running back or try to cut time and pain for both of us by speeding this up.

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Anyway, this situation is complicated. They dated for maybe a little more than 6 months off and on about a year before he knew me. So it’s been like 3 years since they were together. She ended up having leukemia. Her step father is actually my boyfriend’s older brother (which is the reason he said they "couldn’t be together").

He broke up with her 3 times while they were off and on. The first time it was because of difficulties with her being allowed to drive to his house, and his older brother telling him how to treat her. Robin dated someone else. Then she was diagnosed with cancer, and ended that relationship. She went through chemo, lost her hair. Then he started, as she said, "being nice to her", and they got back together. She said she thought it was great. But she was in the hospital and 3 months after they were together that time, he broke up with Robin, because his past love (the one he calls his first true love), came back, and he couldn’t pass that up. So he was with that girl 2-3 months. Then this girl’s father told her he wasn’t good enough for her, and they broke up and he came back to Robin.

She told me at this point "i’m not retarded" and hinted that they ended it pretty soon after that.

My boyfriend says that they ended the relationship because of the new family situation, her step father being his older brother. But when we first got together, he said that he would say I love you, but he didn’t mean it the way he meant to me, like it didn’t mean as much when he was with Robin. He always says "she lost her hair but I didn’t care". And he always talked about it like he fell out of love with her and she was the one that loved him.

I took him up on his offer and contacted her when we were having a big fight. She told me that one time when we weren’t speaking, and we were on a break, that he had texted "I still love you to her". She said that she told him they could never be together, and she cut contact from him.

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After I was upset, I asked him what I could do for him to be happy with me, and he told me that he just wants me to be happy, and he hugged me really tight. He just tells me not to worry about it, but I still do.

I feel like I dont’ have his whole heart. Is there someone that’s been through this? Where it bothers you that your partner still loves their ex? Is it ok? Will he get over it. They obviously will never be able to be together. And it’s like those two relationships ended not from his decision but from something beyond his control. I’m the only one that’s been like no-strings-attatched.

He also said that if his brother didn’t marry her mom, they would still be together. But according to her, she wasn’t gong to stick around.

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system (c:) 10gb [for windows]
system (d:) 40gb [for applications]
system (e:) 140gb [for my stuff]

system (f:) 10gb [for windows]
system (g:) 30gb [for stuff]

system (h:) 3gb [additional emergency partition, just in case if i screw up everything, where to install another os to get to files]
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so i installed windows xp on (c:) and then on (f:) too, because i share my pc with mom, and my plan is to make two independent os,

where first one uses only (c:),(d:),(e:) partitions, while (f:) and (g:) partitons stays invisible and inaccessible for it
and
second one uses only (f:),(g:)partitions, while (c:),(d:),(e:) are invisible and inaccessible for it

(h:)is invisible for both of them
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SO..

1. how do i make dual boot or whatever, and do i need it at all
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so i’d like to use gag (graphic boot manager) but as long as i had patience and intelligence to read instructions it says either both os have to be on same partition (or was it hdd? S=) either i need to have this ibm boot manager, and since i’m n00b and have very little patience on me i’ d like to get some faster, easier to do and more n00b safe solutions (i dunno even what dos, sectors etc are so plz bare me)

2. what does hide partition option mean (partition magic 8.0)? what it does? can i unhide them when it’ s needed too?

3. how can hide partitions on one os, so that they stay visible on another one? can i do this with hide option at partition magic 8.0?

4. or basically what programs n stuff do i need to make my plan?

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