Canada's New AFG Approach=Sacrificing Rural for Urban?

Concerns are out there (here, here and here, for example) regarding Canada's move to concentrate forces and focus on protecting Kandahar City. Some more details about the Canada's "Key Village" approach to doing this explains the strategy in interesting terms, straight from the pens of members of Canada's PRT in Kandahar.

This, from a Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) Team Leader: "Dand District is one of the areas where my unit, the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team (KPRT), is introducing the “Key Village Approach” to counter-insurgency operations. The idea is to secure and stabilize the villages near Kandahar City to make them better places to live, and much less accessible to the insurgents who use them as staging areas for operations in Kandahar City."

This, from a Civil-Military Co-operation (CIMIC) operator: "In Kandahar Province, stabilization teams, or “stab teams”, are deployed into the villages along the key routes into Kandahar City to secure and stabilize them. The result will be to deny the insurgents the use of their traditional staging, resting and transiting areas, thus ensuring a more secure environment in Kandahar City."

My concern: I wonder how the bad guys could spin the red bits to the rural dwellers? "You die to keep them safe"? "Defending Kandahar to the last resident of Dand"?

Just askin' - (a bit) more here.