Fahran wrote:Chess Reloaded wrote:ASCOR? You can't possibly be serious. Are you? This “Afghan” firm which collected the data is literally founded by D3 Systems, a Virginian firm. It's operated by Americans who put the Afghan flag on the company and furnished findings for the war
Do you have a reason, other than the parent company being American, to believe that their methodologies are flawed or dishonest? And I imagine there staff is broadly Afghan, especially in local offices. Since you need to speak Pashto or Dari to poll Afghans properly.
Of course I do. America, the most powerful country in the world, funded, trained and equiped the Afghan military for twenty years. And as soon as America stopped holding their hand, a guerilla offense steamrolled the entire country all the way to the capital in a fortnight. That absolutely doesn't happen when popular support is for the government