10. The idea of holding a popular election for a central executive in Afghanistan is pretty bizarre
They actually have a reasonably representative system where the leaders of various communities get together in something more like a legislative body.
It would have been far more reasaonable to have such a body elect the national executive, sort of like a prime minister.
Even the founders of the US didn't attempt to have the unlettered and ignorant masses directly elect the President.
Direct, popular elections are particularly bad in a society that regards elections not as a biennial adjustment of relative power between two or more fairly similar parties, but instead as a once-in-a lifetime opportunity to permanently seize power for your own faction or ethnic or religious group.
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