To JOS,
A fellow named Aesop had a perfect phrase for people like you who overuse the word twat.
You might have a better right to use that word if you were part of a successful Nato team effort, but when Nato is not winning even given the assets its has, and can't beat the limited number of Taliban fighters Nato vastly outnumbers, the entire world has to wonder who is the real twat when you defend the Nato tactics that have made negative progress in Afghanistan.
As you place yourself in the position of a losing sports teams who explains they lost because the winning team were twats. Somehow I prefer the much politer Aesop phrase of "sour grapes." Because the term "Twat" is always more credible when uttered by winners rather than losers.
Meanwhile we have the larger thread question posed by the New York Times, Is the Pakistani army systematically murdering their own people who they deem not politically correct? Their allegation and not mine, but if so, they may be taking a page from the failed Nato strategy, as smarter people from General Petraeus on down now realize its not possible to win by simply killing our way out of the problem. And now the Pakistani army may simply be aping Nato in trying to kill their way out of their problem. And in doing so risk making their own citizens hate and fear their own government, a metric that almost always results in a stiffing of resistance, and as the counterproductive tactic that it is, almost always results in an end failure by the government.