The taliban are terrorists. "
TERROR" is a combat multiplier in an information war waged by insurgents today for the minds of your populace. Not only do they wish to promote their ideals, they wish to display the government's ineptness to secure their daily lives.
At night, they post letters warning those who speak out or simply kidnap and later kill to best advantage. This discourages community leaders and key officials while leaving security forces held hostage by their own laws of due process from attacking these enemies.
The taliban kill nearly double the civilians in Afghanistan. Much of these killings are targeted specifically for civilians just as they are in Pakistan. The taliban also routinely have used afghan civilians as human shields when faced with their own destruction-often against all wishes of those caught in the middle.
Does that appear familiar? There is a war fought on both sides of the Durand line by forces of the taliban against the civilian peoples of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Until the Pakistani people understand that these men are one and the same, this war shall continue by virtue of the sanctuary provided by Pakistanis to these killers.
You have elevated the status of men such as Haqqani, Hekmatyar, and Omar by your fawning upon them. Your tribals have noticed and emulate these brutal slave-masters.
These men are not heros for attempting to do to Afghanistan that which you reject being done to Pakistan. Quit supporting the afghan irhabists and make them the pariahs they deserve to be and your own insurgency will wither and die.
So too, btw, Afghanistan's. With that will come the stability that all seek.
As of now, you are reaping that which you've sown.
Thanks.
