Muhammad-Bin-Qasim
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Sir... if you don't realize that Pakistani military men at the highest level are not involved, then I'm not sure you're seeing this clearly.
First is the requirement for intel. The drones are not magic; they cannot find terrorists with some sort of "TTP/Taliban/al-quaeda sniffer device." There are Pakistanis on the ground in the disputed areas finding these men. Above them, I haven't the slightest doubt that the effort is joint, with Pakistani military men at probably the highest level, working together with the U.S.
By keeping the cooperation secret, the Pakistan Army and government has plausible deniability.
Finally, these strikes are as "surgical" as anything in the history of modern warfare. If the date was 1970, and some high-ranking terrorist was known to be in a house, dumb iron bombs would rain down and shatter an entire city block.
The other option is to do nothing. What would the future of Afghanistan and Pakistan be if the U.S. pulled the plug on the whole thing? al-quaeda reached across an entire hemisphere to attack us. But these same elements live inside Pakistan and Afghanistan both. And they will not be content to simply control a small area. Their goal is the export of their ideology; those that resist will be killed. They need to be dealt with NOW, with forces already there, via a joint operation between Pakistan, and NATO/ISAF/coalition forces.
I hear you Chogy... the point is that if Americans had let Pakistan handle it completely, you would not have had to deal with the massive anti Americanism that is a norm in our country now...
As for intel and "surgical"... you are killing more innocent civilians than actual militants... i.e its not "surgical" enough...
Ultimately that causes two problems for those of us who are attempting political change in our country...
1. Increase in bloodshed as Militants exploit the innocent deaths for their own bloody cause... if it were Pak Army, most people would understand the reasons... because its US, they do not!!!
2. We being labelled as extremist as soon as we utter the word Islam...
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