This is quite a startling statistic. I don't know how the US could get their message out though. It's 10 years later and only now they realise this? This should have been a priority from the get go to try to win local support.
That said, I'm not sure what good it would have done. A bunch of Afghani shepards would be wondering: "so why did they invade my country of Afghanistan when a couple of terrorists from Saudi Arabia crash a plane into a building?"
In my old workplace I used to work late shifts to the point where the cleaners would come in. One of the janitors was from Afghanistan and he told me that all his family ever knew was the history of Afghanistan being stepped on and unjustifiably invaded by every country for the last 1000 years (Ottomans, English, Soviets, etc.) so they just see it as an extension of that.
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