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2013-10-09 15:03:06
"This is the most emotive incident that has happened so far. It been really at a peak," said Martine van Bijlert, codirector of the Afghanistan Analysts Network in Kabul. "Even people who are really moderate are sort of exasperated," she said of Afghans response to the Quran incident. They are saying, "How can you do this? How are we supposed to go on like this?"
Max Boot, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Afghans generally do not hate Americans and noted that the thousands of people who protested were a fraction of the nearly 30 million people who live in Afghanistan. who want a faster withdrawal of American forces.
"Many Americans seem to be saying that if the Afghan people don want us there, why should we stay?" he wrote. "That dubious logic because we are not in Afghanistan as a favor to the Afghan people. intends to "stay the course" with its basic strategy for transitioning security responsibility to the Afghans.
"This is a war zone," Little said. "There is no such thing as zero risk."
Afghan animosity for foreigners does not necessary mean they all want the international forces to leave. survey released in late January, before the protests, reported that 68 percent of Afghans surveyed said foreign troops should stay for the time being, compared to about a quarter who said they should leave immediately. The survey by an independent research firm conducted inperson interviews with 7,278 Afghans in October 2011 in all 34 of Afghanistan provinces, although some randomly chosen districts were inaccessible because of the threat from Taliban insurgents. It quoted a margin of error of 1.6 percentage points.
Some of the four main ethnic factions in Afghanistan want the foreign troops to stay longer than others do. Many Pashtuns, who make up 40 percent of the population and fill the ranks of the Taliban, want international troops to leave immediately. The Hazaras, Tajiks and Uzbeks, many of whom were massacred by the Taliban, generally want them to stay as long as violence threatens security.
Unrest provoked by the Quran burning has eased, but analysts predict antiAmericanism will remain at heightened levels for some time.
"This one isn going away. I think this act fatally compromises our efforts in Afghanistan," said Michael Corgan, an international relations professor at Boston University. "The burnings immediately put at greater risk all the Americans who were doing good things in Afghanistan building and restoring infrastructure."
