What are we afraid of anyways? Don't we have a much bigger army than few thousand of Talibans? Talibans do not have any strength to do the so-called "take over" of Pakistan.
Taliban are not likely to take-over Pakistan, that is a scare-tactic world is trying on Pakistan to give-in to their "demand". Taliban are simple plain gangsters who can't fight in open fields, they can only fight in mountainous areas where they are unable to be seen easily.
Or what we are really afraid is that the local people will start siding with the Talibans? Doesn't that mean we need to listen to the grievances of those people -and give them their proper rights and rightful resources- instead of further destroying them because of our short-sightedness? What are we going to get out of from the use of force? What has it gotten us so far? What has it gotten America?
There is nothing about "grievances" which Taliban are fighting for. They simply want to force their rule in the areas. In case you didn't notice they take over big-businesses to fund their movement. They have become oppressors themselves. The only thing I've heard about "good" from them is for poor people that they 've stolen lands from "rich" and gave it to poor for their earning. They've forced each house to provide one male soldier in return they pay each household some monthly income.
And most of all, why are we doing this because America says so? These are our very own people. We need to have our own plan. A long term plan and not a short term plan of fear and destruction.
We have to do it on our own, we don't need anyone's directions. Only problem is that they've been using Islam as their cover which makes difficult for large population to condemn them.