"Though, the question still remains why it isn't your choice to assist in fencing the border since it will be in everyone's interest to keep those miscreants from regrouping on the Pakistani side of the border as you always purportedly claim? I don't understand the negligence and reluctance."
Fencing either side of the border is not our decision. It is decision for Afghans and Pakistanis to take together or take separately. Nothing prevents Pakistan, for instance, from running a fence just inside your border.
You are welcome to do as you wish. That is not negligent and, indeed, is respecting the authority of those invested with the power to decide. That's not America.
As to reluctance, our opposition stems from the ethnic homogeneity of the border area and its traditional pathways to both countries. Nobody will be so disrupted by such as ethnic pashtu of the region. If mines are introduced, the consequences to daily life could be shattering.
Finally, fences and mine fields must be observed to be effective. Doing so for the length of the Afghan-Pakistani border will likely prove an unbearable burden for either or both countries.
Better to find reconciliation and open borders than what you propose, IMV but, again, it's not America's decision.
"The rest have been civilians."
No. It didn't suggest that at all. It only relayed how many were A.Q. leaders. You've not at all accounted for the numerous second-level associates and affiliated taliban that have been killed in these attacks.
"Had the US not left Afghanistan as an open field for the Mujahideen and instead rebuilt the country we wouldn't be facing this situation today."
I strongly doubt the Soviets would have left Afghanistan at all if they were certain that we'd be immediately back-filling their vacancy along their southern tier of socialist states.
Had we managed to persuade the Soviets to depart and stayed ourselves, however, I can only imagine the hue and cry from the muslim camp about our neo-imperialist ambitions for a region in which we'd never held a historical interest.
We'd been damned by Islam anyway.
Further, unlike America, Pakistan was beautifully positioned to legitimately help your immediate neighbor, Afghanistan. What assistance, though, did you render to raise forth the Afghan people from their misery besides supporting first Hekmatyar and then the taliban?
For shame.
Thanks.