FIRST QUESTION

I agree with Jordan on this point because I cannot emphasize how crucial this is - you want to make sure that your respondents have some knowledge or interest about Afghanistan - which would be clearly be shown after asking this basic question before moving on to more specific questions about Afghanistan and or defense, if a person does not show any interest, that's does not mean that his answers to the rest of the question will become invalid, rather, just that we as the surveyor will know the ways in which conclusions can be drawn after finishing the survey. However, if the rest feel that it is not crucial, then I am fine with it as well but I think this questions is crucial to get more honest / useful information / replies to the other questions in the survey.