Canadians are working hard to win over the population and reduce the amount of insurgents fighting for the Taliban. One of the many methods is the establishment of development projects that increase the standard of living of Afghans (schools, medical clinics, etc.), hiring of young men for these projects in work programs that are designed to take the foot soldier out of the insurgent band, and the conduct of capture/kill operations against the Taliban. Some villages are more receptive to these development and work programs than others. Read more on this topic:
"Months of sometimes tough and bloody fighting by Canadian, U.S. and Afghan forces over the summer and fall weren’t enough to pacify a village that remains a refuge for insurgents in southern Afghanistan."Canadian soldiers try tough love, jealousy to win over Afghan villagers", Montreal Gazette, January 15, 2011.
That’s when the Canadians, with plenty of cash for "icebreaker" projects designed to get young men more interested in jobs than war, decided to just bypass Nakhonay and fund a flood of development projects for its closest neighbours.
Canada’s soldiers have taken on a newer, tough-love approach as two deadlines loom — their summer pullout from Kandahar, and, preceding that, the traditional spring start of another insurgent fighting season."
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