livingdead
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I do not dispute some support to taliban among pashtuns.. but when somebody supports taliban it could be completely different from the reason you imply (ideological).. more often than not its tribal affiliation driven by fear.No ruler, whether democratic or dictatorial, could attain power and remain in power without popular support. Difference between democracy and dictatorship is that while democracy has support of majority, dictatorship has support of near-majority.
If Afghans were anti-Taliban, they could have supported rival group.( i remember that there were two, one supported by Tajikistan and another by Iran ).
Some girls getting education does not prove anything. If Taliban does not have significant support amongst native population, it would have died long ago.
Its difficult to extrapolate that to say most pashtuns support blowing up girls schools or stoning women for sports.
Even when the support is through ballot (which was not the case in afganistan), you will see its difficult to support everything that a group promotes.
Its not about some girls, afgans braving taliban threat to send their daughter to school, voting in an election (and then taliban chops off their fingers).. how many of us will not be silent spectators and say.. lets not take risks.. let my daughter stay home and I got nothing to do with democracy..