SecularHumanist
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Its does not matter what i believe or for that matter you believe. What matters is that kid and many like him all over Pakistan are loosing legs/arms, their lives and much more and in the name of what the "collateral damage".
Yes that is painful, but there is no other way around that. This is the price the country is paying for mistakes of the past. Innocent people will continue to be killed by cancer of Taliban, whether the Army sits back or attacks. But if the Army permanently gets rid of this cancer, innocent people will never have to worry about living in fear, and this country will emerge.
What we call 'collateral damage' is the limitations in power and precision of our technology. Lets just imagine for a second that the Pakistan Army had perfect weapons--weapons with which the Pakistan Army could impair or kill a person, group, at any distance, without harming the innocent civilians. How would Pakistan use this technology? To destroy the Taliban and not hurt civilians right?
Now lets imagine the same technology is given to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. What would they do with it? I think it is pretty obvious that they would use this technology very differently. Now do you see the problem with saying that morally, the Pakistan Army is equivalent to the Taliban? This is what Imran Khan tries to do and fails in his argument.