So much for serving the nation.I love how they planned to support local operations through money and arms; of course such unflinching patriots would never kill their own countrymen...they would just directly support those who would do the killing. I don't know how it's possible for the Taliban to cater to well educated Muslims, considering their very ideologies keeps people from getting educated in the first place. This whole article is so convoluted, on so many levels. A guy is willing to take revenge on the Pakistani army for killing his "brothers", without thinking about the Pakistani army personnel that must have been lost in the bloodshed. Why does the moral high ground only exist from the religious side of the argument? Why isn't a person of this ilk furious that his compatriots, civilian and military, are getting massacred by extremists? How are the extremists the victims in the numerous conflicts they have been responsible for starting in the first place? Questions that this high end magazine is probably uninterested in tackling.
This mess does bring up the issue of combating extremism within the military. As nuclearpak alluded to, the problems must have become obvious enough to require a crackdown. The issue that remains is: how to deal with the reality that the masses from which the low level ranks are filled is increasingly sympathetic to any message angled to include the apparent word of God. It is far easier to deal with the higher ranking officials, than it is to purge the lower ranks. They are far harder to track due to sheer numbers. As long as sympathizers exist in the general population, we will be hard pressed to keep them from entering the military. And now we have this very progressive magazine, from a very progressive organization. The 'educated', such as this man, will fall by the wayside with such sound arguments...that a 12 year old with an actual education would rip to shreds.
