yllus
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Originally posted by: The Green Bean
Originally posted by: yllus
I'm all for peaceful negotiations where possible, but I imagine that what we're actually talking about here is capitulating to extremists in return for a very temporary lull in violence being imported into other regions of Pakistan.
The Taliban and their ideology is nothing new in Pakistan. They haven't been a problem because we haven't confronted them and there's no need to. Even in Afghanistan they only reason they came to power was a power vacuum. If they hadn't come Afghanistan would've had far more loss of life and violation of so called human rights. And now they're fighting a freedom war against an occupation that is illegal.
I'll just make it more clear before some bigots here start saying I support the taliban. I wish they were gone but I don't feel sorry for the Americans killed in Afghanistan.
*snorts* A regime that enacts laws such as an all-encompassing ban on females getting an education pretty much takes the cake when it comes to violations of human rights. Freedom war my ass.
The Taliban most certainly have always been a problem in Pakistan - you act as if the federal government decided to walk into the frontier regions one day and throw their weight around for no reason. I wonder if it had anything to do with the extremist use of Pakistani soil as a base of operations and funding for military actions elsewhere? Those "elsewheres" are getting very tired of Pakistan's turning a blind eye to what goes on in its own backyard, and if it doesn't act of its own accord, someone else will. And will be entirely Pakistan's own fault.