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[QUOTE="AWP, post: 34103, member: 18"]
I agree with the comments about attacks not dissuading or even hindering the insurgents. A hellfire here and there might make us feel better but it isn't doing much good.

I partially agree with the notion that Pashtuns aren't the problem. While many of those coming across the border aren't Pashtun, the Pashtuns run the FATA. If they are so peace loving and desirous of stability then why aren't they rising up to stop the foreign interlopers? Instead they target those in the US-led coalition. You can talk about the Balochi and Sindhi and Jedi but they aren't the problems. The authors might as well state something like the LAPD shouldn't target the Crips and Bloods since the Latin Kings are operating in Chicago. Apples and oranges....

Maybe I'm guilty of the "conventional thinking" that the authors are panning, but this piece is almost an apology to the Pashtuns and FATA. I'll stop beliving the Pashtuns and the FATA are the devil when they start doing something about their own house. Go after the foreign fighters crossing the border and using the FATA as a safe haven, shut down the radical madrassas, and come out and support the US-led coalition by condemning the Taliban.

Never happen though, so their leaders will get to wonder if that buzzing sound is about to send them Allah.
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