The local inhabitants on the south are basically peasants and farmers! As usual this people are ordinary and affable. That's why, everyone who waged a war in Iraq, said that the war in Iraq and Afghanistan like day and night. Everything here is very affable! I guess that everyone saw the pictures of a children in Iraq or Palestine. The contact between children and army is very different! All children can ask the candy or the pen. The forces of ISAF wage the war very carefully as possible as it may be. For example, the peasant buries an explosive at night. No one shoot at him and don't cover with mortar fire. Soldiers let him do that and in the morning he goes to demine everything he buried before. Later the soldiers go to his place, arrest him and interrogate about his action! They ask who gave him the explosive and notice him not to do this anymore and then release him! As usual the peasants do this just because they need money. He buried the mine on the money of Taliban and when the US patrol will pass by his place and ask where the mine is, he'll show because americans will pay for it. That is such kind of life fact. If you need the money you should bury the mine, if you need more you should dig it up. That is easy! During the conversation they looks like Chekhov's peasant who unscrewed a nut from the railway. Also you need to remember the east raid. I've written about the best friends fight agains each other. And here is one more example. It was in Uzbekistan which is very similar to Afghanistan. I traveled in Uzbekistan during one month and always felt that everyone tried to deceive me. And they didn't try to do it in difficult way, they tried to make obvious trickery!

I asked: "The correct way is turn to the right?" They said : "No, you have to go to the left!". Actually the correct way was to the right! Once, I got into talk and was explained. We call this action, a deceive, but they say that it is just outwit. You don't know the way, but I know. If I show it at once, what will I get? The money which you get from outwit is good, but you can't buy a food on them! Such li fe style is similar in Afghanistan.
That isn't something extraordinary. The european culture have passed this stapes in there development! The same logic had Ancient Greece. Even the nickname of Odyssey was dodgy! All his fame was around his trickery. When his friends asked him to go to the war he shamed a moronic, than he materialized into sheep, an old man, etc. But Homer wrote about him long time ago and now is 21 century.
The peasant follows the same simple logic, to growing up the poppy. There is not so much water around, the climate is sharply continental, that's why it's impossible to grow bread or corn up, without simple achievements of agriculture. Just poppy grows everywhere. The main question for them is money! Poppy is rather expensive to sell. And they don't really care about what will happen with the poppy after deal. The logic is simple: why I'll be growing something which is cheap, if I could grow something which is expensive. The Americans always try to convince the peasants to grow saffron instead of poppy! During the first sale it cost even more expensive. Someone agree, someone not. Also there are a lot of different programs, for example, one of the program is about how to build and use hothouse. But they don't understand why they need it!
Many of town dwellers are absolutely different. There are a lot of educated people. Now there are a lot of afghans who emigrated and now work as Afghanistan counsellor, interpreter, guide for ISAF army. Many of them are very educated and looks perfect!