With all that said, this seems to be necessary sacrifice at the moment and we should give the Pakistanis credit for fighting against the Taliban in the West. They will also do a great deal in the future to help build up the Afghan forces, as once again India’s influence is usurped and they see a drawback in their forces.
As NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen stated, “I would like to encourage Muslim countries to engage in Afghanistan ... Muslim countries have valuable cultural and religious awareness and expertise to bear”.
I am actually aghast at the thought of expressing servitude toward theocracies- much less, Islamic theocracies.
I fail to see why it is a bad idea to dismantle such primitive subcultures to the point that they can see the folly of their ways, or, if it comes to that, destroy them to the extent that they can only indulge in their barbarism without affecting anyone beyond the borders of their hell-holes.