Could they not be driven back to afg...just like they were driven to pk from afg?
As said earlier they did not become a problem until they become political and provided aid to aq.
But one cant help but wonder...why the radicals to begin with?
Why do they have a passion to do harm to those with different beliefs?
We can not have armies going around and becoming religious police.
It seems this happens in areas with lack of govt..or a govt to weak to resist.
They had essentially took over afg...until we invaded for example.
My concern is pk having advanced weapons ...the tb is to be taken seriously.
With so many present and as you say..not knowing who is who....how long before a member of aq or the taliban..accesses these?
Not being abke to identify your enemy...or the inability to act upon then when you kbow where they are is of concern.
The fact that they took over afg shows thier strength. ..if these fruits access your warheads..this would be very tragic.... IJS
Answers to some of your questions are already contained in you questions themselves.
When a country is bombed and at war an exodus of refugees moves towards bordering areas where they have their relatives or friends. Afghans moved to Pakistan border areas and then penetrated cities, are not distinguishable from their cousins in features, culture, countenance and language as well which they are able to adopt with little effort. They cannot be driven back alone by Pakistan which has an about 1500 miles long border with Afghanistan.
Previous to war on terror the Talibs had their own laws and courts of justice based on Sharia. As there is lack of rule and justice ( cases are left pending for decades without judgments and through weakening of evidence the criminals get freed) the Talibans or their cuzzo's want insist upon 'fair and speedy justice' which they think only Sharia can assure as it does in Saudia or UAE. The people who want this are tribal folks .....almost law unto themselves and upon whom the writ of govt is weak or rather absent.
CIA and ISI are conducting the operation under some arrangement best known to them. It is for the beneficiary the US to take care of the needs of the Pak army....and it is not fair for anyone to ask Pak to fight its proxy war. Let your marines fight the Talibs on ground and test their strength...Talibs are fighting only with light guns (AK42, grenades and home-made rocket launchers) while NATO forces are fully equipped with modern weaponry. It's strange that given all that the NATO forces have failed to overcome the Talibs....
Pak army is fighting the Talibs on ground....and has lost about 5000 strong, more than the US lost.
War on terror is an international dilemma the code of which is only known to the countries involved in it. I think it is a crazy war...a timid act of one who cannot defend his own country. 9/11 got done by Saudi's and not Talibs....Firstly the US was after AQ and after it got uprooted or suppressed the Taliban have been made an excuse for continuing the war .....at the expense of American tax money.
I think the US must quit and leave the Taliban matter with Pak to settle ....
Taliban still enjoy strong clout in much of Afghanistan and now they are spreading out not only to Pak but other countries of the world as well.
I think Pak army is capable of defending its nukes unless it itself wants to use them.....but I believe that won't happen being an exercise in futility.
there is too much stuff on the web ...you can find further answers to your questions there and from your own 'think tanks' who write about the problem,
