Dance
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If I recall correctly, generally it's when three, yes, 3 percent of the population is persuaded of a point
You and others may want to see the issue as terrorism - but clearly this is not how overwhelming majorities see it, obviously -- so how do they see it?
See Dance our Mods, don't want to name them (@Oscar) may not appreciate it but there are three reasons the issue is not seen as terrorism but rather what is Islam - Army supports the ideas that animates the terrorists, these people we today call terrorists were our heroes, as were their sectarian cousins, both creatures of the Army - this is the reason the army refuses to lead on this issue - Then the politicians, they know there is no profit in countering terrorism/extremism and politicians are not in politics for such things when there is money to be made and they sit in majlis with the intellectual God Fathers of extremism, third both politicians and Army officer corps knows that talib will have their head or their family members head - So there is no incentive, there is no vision for a Pakistan free of islam-ism, because all players agree that islamism is the way to go, so what if 50,000 Pakistanis have been butchered, we have millions more to sacrifice in the cause of ideology.
I don't look to the population to be the decider, it's GHQ that will be the decider, as soon as tipping point makes itself realized there.
I understand what you're saying and yes the problem doe lie in ideology. Ideology unfortunately is hard to defeat.
But hasn't the tipping point of the the army come? Their headquarters have been attacked, their men have been killed, weapons destroyed?