Re: Terrorists storm Peshawar school, Scores of students killed
These are appropriate sentiments and I have no idea why you were browbeaten for them.
To be oblivious, or even clueless, to such moral nuances is not at all being akin to the TTP. They plotted to kill children…a line was crossed. I could wager that ONLY the TTP and their ilk think this way, and it sets them apart from the rest of Pakistan. Which makes proclamations such as I made in my previous post all too easy, and to my mind, obvious…one cannot be a member of TTP and be innocent. To reclaim innocence, it must mean the renunciation of the TTP.
We get into the larger discussion of strategy and the human cost of conducting war, but that is at this juncture a side point. It does not eliminate the necessity of war, or the clarity of the goal.
But to be clear, though I take it for granted that every member of TTP and their sympathizers must be killed, I have no clear idea how this can be done without the loss of innocent lives. I will NOT sweep that under the rug…and it *is *of paramount importance to conduct ourselves in thought and deed that distinguishes us from the animals we fight. But for now, we need to be clear on what the goals are.