<P> In December 2009, many Afghan tribal heads and local leaders from the south and east called for U.S. troop withdrawals . "I don't think we will be able to solve our problems with military force," said Muhammad Qasim, a Kandahar tribal elder . "We can solve them by providing jobs and development and by using local leaders to negotiate with the Taliban ." "If new troops come and are stationed in civilian areas, when they draw Taliban attacks civilians will end up being killed," said Gulbadshah Majidi, a lawmaker and close associate of Mr. Karzai . "This will only increase the distance between Afghans and their government ." </P> <P> In late January 2010, Afghan protesters took to the streets for three straight days and blocked traffic on a highway that links Kabul and Kandahar . The Afghans were demonstrating in response to the deaths of four men in a NATO - Afghan raid in the village of Ghazni . Ghazni residents insisted that the dead were civilians . </P> <P> A 2015 survey by Langer Research Associates found that 77% of Afghans support the presence of U.S. forces; 67% also support the presence of NATO forces . Despite the problems in the country, 80% of Afghans still held the view that it was a good thing for the United States to overthrow the Taliban in 2001 . More Afghans blame the Taliban or al - Qaeda for the country's violence (53%) than those who blame the U.S.A (12%). </P> <Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ Reporting in Kabul had been severely limited first by the Taliban's ban on nearly all foreign news organizations and subsequently by US bombing which destroyed Al Jazeera's Kabul headquarters and damaged the BBC's and Associated Press' offices; no journalists died as a result of the US bombing . https://cpj.org/2002/03/attacks-on-the-press-2001-afghanistan.php </Li> </Ol>

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