Yes its a vicious cycle revolving continously. In any kind of war, the collateral damage is unavoidable. In this ugly war, i think PA has been quite successful in keeping it to minimum, but its bound to happen.
Thats why, why challenge the writ of the state? Why make your half inch mosques, why start declaring fellow muslims as wajibulkatal, why keep innocent people hostage to your 1000s yrs old theories of ruling the world and destroying enemies of islam......no state can sit in its back and wait for these ignorant jahils to sweep the country with their ignorant ideas and allow them to take hostage the majority moderates......
I think in the start after this ugly war was imposed on us, PA's actions were very caeful, they still would be, but it was only after SWAT debacle that we saw a relativley increased aggression. So they always wanted to avoid the civilian caualities. To avoid the collateral damage, PA has already paid a high price by allowing civilians to get out of areas where actions are planned, thus, allowing TTP and other thugs to escape.
Yes its easy for us to express views from confort of our homes, I can not even undestand the pain which would ve been caused to the affected families.....
But what to do? Wipe them out or wait for them to come and start bombing our mainlands again?
This viscous cycle will go on until we completely wipe them out...