Icono... I have no doubt as far as the intentions of our army our concerned at the moment inspite of their past policies of nurturing militants as stretegic depth. They are making huge sacrifices to protect us.
But you have to understand that this war has to be fought on two fronts. We have fight them in their strongholds as well as we have to destroy their local support if we want to protect our innocent umarmed civilians. There is no way these taliban can operate in our cities without local support and I am afraid our political provincial governments are not doing enough to combat this local support!
I am not too sure about the ANP NWFP government and the extent of their resolve to challenge the local support of these taliban. I was in a high profile wedding in Peshawar a few months ago and met the ANP leadership personally. I can tell you first hand that they consider actions against these local partners of taliban as actions against Pukhtuns. They take all this in an ethnic colour. My stand is that whoever is attacking or helping these attacks on our civilians should not be tolerated on what-so-ever-basis if we want to have any fruitful result in this war!
Beleive me it is not a tribal war as these animals have killed most of the tribal leaders and elders through suicide attacks on jirga meetings. It's not an ethnical war as there majority of these animals fighting are non Pukhtoons. People like IK and others who say that we shouild not fight these animals forget that any attempt of peace making with them failed badly in the past. They used these peace deals with our army just to regroup, make themselves stronger and attack more heavily. Any attempt to make peace deals again will be fatal. the only way is zero tolerance on what-so-ever-basis against these enemies of Pakistan and Pakistanis.
I don't know Yazdi what exactly are we discussing here. I agree with what you said that the war has to be fought both against local support and the terrorist training grounds in tribal area. Am i missing something.