Re: No Sir no…you can’t have your cake and eat it too!
Frankly, going by just what you have written in this post at face value, there is little I will object to or argue with.
Your previous writings seemed to imply you are equivocating aggression, defence and punishment. What OBL, Al Qaeda, LeT, TTP etc do are aggressions not out out of any nationalistic interests.
America used mujahideens through Pakistan, to punish Soviet invasion; to punish OBL and Al Qaeda. There was no covert agenda there; they did not go after civilians.
BUT when Pakistan uses these outfits to prosecute their covert agenda such as in Afghanistan for so called ‘strategic depth’ or in India for Kashmir dreams, they can no longer be called geopolitical or geostrategic or anything else - it is terrorism pain and simple. Their primary targets are civilian