When it comes to our forces and other military forces being in Afghanistan, you will be sure to get mixed feelings from Afghans regarding having us stay or leave. I doubt any poll could be done to give a truly accurate result of this view, but I have found that the more educated and urban the Afghan is, the more likely they fear the lack of the international forces. They frankly do not trust their own government or security forces.
I can tell you about one thing the Afghans all want and that is electricity.
Despite massive amounts of money allocated to providing power to the people in the cities (I am not even counting the rural areas here) many people only get an hour or two of power per day.
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