"So why refuse our offer to fence the border?"
I don't recall that we have but, more importantly, it's not our choice to fence your border. Nothing prevents Pakistan from doing so on its side of the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Fence away. Build mine fields if you wish. I personally think it's a bad and unmanageable idea but it's not America's decision.
"Why insist on killing our innocent sons and daughters at the expense of a handful of miscreants..."
Your notion of "
handful" is interesting given that FATAville is awash in these "
miscreants". Great swaths of Pakistani land have been functionally seized by these men and there's a very real war being fought.
I don't recall "
insist[ing]" that we kill innocents along with the enemy but you'd be insane to believe that your own army hasn't killed an innocent civilian or two in the course of its operations. HELLFIRE is a precision anti-tank weapon. It hits with amazing accuracy that for which it's aimed.
However, I'd encourage Pakistanis not to aid and abet these men. When you choose to associate or co-habitate with them, you are likely to suffer for that choice. In short, don't live near nor stand next to people that are candidates for HELLFIRE.
"Wouldn't that be helpful in preventing the sanctuaries from being formed?"
You seem not to understand that sanctuary was a choice made by Pakistan back in early 2002. This is an old issue that's finally receiving its just due as the central core issue of this insurgency. Reconciliation of sanctuary as an issue will determine whether Pakistan is welcomed to the family of nations or on the outside looking in along with a select group of others.
That's a fact and it is a reflection of the seriousness of this particular issue. Most Pakistanis have been led to believe that providing our enemy with sanctuary comes with no cost to themselves.
Not so.
Literally everything that's happened to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and America has been a result of decisions to provide sanctuary, to include the taliban's decision to do so for Al Qaeda back in the late nineties. Following 9/11, that sanctuary was no longer respected.
Thanks.