Orakzai is peaceful, Swat is peaceful, buner is peaceful. Need i go more? Have you gone to those places? Have you talked to the locals? Have you talked to the people who supported TTP and then reverted when they saw what happened? I have done all those. Even met with plenty lashkars who are fighting the TTP. They are hopelessly outgunned. But they dont give up, which you as a nation have. This will be your fall from grace, mark my words.
And my info regarding IRA isnt wiki, sorry to say wiki is not academically acceptable. My knowledge comes from plenty British protestants and Irish catholics. Have you read up on their history? Those who were targeted were involved in killing the IRA. Please come when you have indepth exposure to this. You have none, if you consider teh IRA's history as bloody then what is TTP history? Massacre on a smaller scale. Yet you wanna legitimize them? I side with the IRA because i know plenty of Americans who cherish their Irish past. Not the jersey boys but real Irish who still stick to their principles.
Come back when you dont have to use wiki.