For those here claiming Pakistan's issues lie with a government and military whom are puppets of America, allow me to disabuse yourselves of that notion.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Your government and military have walked a fine line to keep a pipeline of money and material open during this war. Is it a war in which you'd be involved were that pipeline not open? Yes.
You became involved the day the Afghan taliban government stepped into your lands and set up their temporary abode among your tribal citizens, assuring their infection.
Now you've made war, to be sure. Both your citizens and soldiers have died fighting against Pakistanis. Not once, though, has your government or army done our bidding and made war upon the Afghan taliban upon your lands.
Congratulations...I suppose. Neither your army nor government have proved puppets of America no matter how corrupt or feckless they may seem to you. Trust we find them as you do. Whatever ends they serve those are not ours.
In holding out hope that these men will one day prove useful in Afghanistan you've imported the source of your own demise. In the process, your vaunted and precious sovereignty was rendered null and void long before the first PREDATOR appeared in your skies. Meanwhile men like Nek Mohammad, Baitullah & Hakimullah Mehsud, Mullah Faizullah, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, and Maulvi Nazir and their minions have learned closely the lessons imparted by the afghan taliban.
You've been at war, you are at war and you shall remain at war regardless of America's presence or money in your region.
