Like Asim and others, you make these statements with certitude, fully crediting your view and discrediting ours.
I make no claim that true innocents don't die. I'm saddened that men would welcome these militants into their homes and, in the process, expose their wives and children to attack. No doubt.
I have no doubt that others gather at times about these men-carrying the cachet of rogue brigand warriors of some local mythology. They too can be swept up in the maelstrom. Fair enough though untested by actual numbers provided by any of you. Can you do so? Without such, there's no basis whatsoever to make any judgement.
Oddly enough, the hue and cry from your nation shows no sympathy for the hell, havoc, and mayhem underwhich afghani civilians have been subjected as a result of the presence of these men within Pakistan. None.
Still, that leaves unanswered the results of PREDATOR's attacks upon these "miscreants". We've had no effect and no results, eh? I've seen a lot of names of important men bandied about. Haven't you?
Actually, neither roadrunner nor you are in position to know what these men have done in their past nor their future intended plans. Neither anybody else here. Thus, you've little credibility to evaluate "effect".
roadrunner's simplistic
"cause and effect" rationales remain woefully and pathetically full of holes. Worse, the central underlying premise behind these attacks- the absence of a Pakistani gov't writ inside the Islamic Republic of Pashtunistan makes impossible for NATO (specifically America) to ignore it's responsibilities to protect itself and Afghanistan.
Until your nation removes the threat posed by the defeated taliban army of Afghanistan and reasserts control and responsibility over all it's lands, I'm comfortably certain that PREDATOR will continue. PREDATOR, therefore, is a dead issue in the absence of such a writ of control.
Again, I encourage families to not house these men. When you aid and abet the enemy, you become so yourself. That seems reasonable, wouldn't you agree?
Doing so, naturally, then makes you and those for whom you're responsible as targets too.
Please fight these men with everything that you can and drive them away from you. If you cannot, run to the hills with your families and tell the nearest authorities. Maybe they'll help.
Anyway, whatever you do, don't be within 100ft. of these men at any time. You are vulnerable.
I hope that helps. It seems clear and easy to understand.
There. My conscience is clear.
The next time there's a suicide bomb in a Jalalabad market, I hope your's is too. There's a real fine chance it came from Pakistan.