The only thing that could work would be to literally gather all the villagers in a single defensible area. They shuffled folks around rather rudely in Iraq, Baghdad in particular, in order to keep Sunni and Shiite out of each other’s faces. Afghanistan is much more spread out.
We could but who’s going to grow the opium?
yeah but speaking from my own experience it´s quite hard to differ between an afghan civilan and a potentional enemy fighter. nor is there any guarantee that a so called “civilian” of today may not attack you tommorow.