This I consider as a denail! Forget about who is involved, but the main problem is the Pakistanie talibs are for controlling Pakistan at no cost, and in the latest news I have read, this masud guy has 20,000 men ready for anything. And the act that they are creating is showing lots of ripples to the Pakistan itself. One clearly sees that the army is not capable of handling these folks because if they where, there would not be a sense of any peace deal. And just look after the peace deal how long it took them to act again.
If your own capital looks like a war zone then how long these people have to take over the country. I completly agree with the United States here, that they should enter into SWAT and FATA region and destroy these animals, that is the only viable solution to this mess that Pakistan has created knowingly or unknowingly.
And as a last note Mr. Muse has spoke about this problem widely in this forum about the cancer that has started slowly, but it grows fast. It must not reach to stage 4. And Pakistanies have to wake up to this cancer.
What form of denial do you see in my point of view?
I am all for action against these TTP goons but i am also pointing out that funding has to come from somewhere, these people are guns for hire and do not fight for any noble cause. They have suffered casualties and still have enough resources to keep up their fight.
The locals are not supportive of them but fear the damage due to ARMY versus TTP scenario and stay submissive in troubled areas.
Hundreds of assassinations and thousands of deaths due to bombings have all targeted local influential people, political reps, Khasadars etc.
SWAT is a clear example in which it was the local population/provincial government which pushed GOP to enter a peace agreement after it saw that conflict was prolonged and bloody.
(BTW there is no peace deal with Mehsud currently)
There is no doubt in my mind that there should be no deal with the primary culprits and close associates who have openly claimed responsibility for their terrorist acts. Such people need to be taken out and made an example of.
With stepped up terrorist acts by TTP they are being hated throughout Pakistan and that is a positive development (at a terrible and unfortunate cost).
Their anti US myth is being busted so those people who thought they were just a byproduct of US invasion of Afghanistan are thinking again.
Mehsud also knows that anti US proclamation is the only thing which can win him some supporters in the fiercely independent Tribal areas and that is why he always links his actions to US presence in Afghanistan, in reality he is just fighting Pakistan and that is something his actions are proving.
Terrorist attacks do not mean that terrorists have taken over the entire country but yes TTP are a huge problem and need to be dealt with as soon as humanly possibly.
PA is capable of dealing with these terrorists and has inflicted heavy losses on them while at the same time lots of our troops have been martyred. The problem so far is with government which is more involved with politics rather than establishing the writ of the state in troubled hot spots with a solid strategy and action plan involving political control, reconstruction, infrastructure development and state services on top of Army actions.
USA entering SWAT and FATA would 100% guarantee an end to Pak cooperation, start a Pak US conflict, build hate against US and will make TTP much more stronger. USA cannot handle such a conflict so assuming they can solve all problems is quite unrealistic.
If you are aware of the long term implications of such an action for the entire region then it is not very prudent to even suggest it.
The bottom line is that due to unprecedented events we are all in the same boat now and whosoever wants to sink the other one will do so at his own peril.