The Futility Of Dealing With Extremists- The Pakistan/Taliban Troubles

Anyone who believes they can reason with fanatics is deluded. They don't think the same way that normal human beings do. Their thought processes are twisted, so they are unable to see things the way we do, with a balanced mind. So, thinking that you can somehow negotiate with terrorists through diplomatic means or through appeasement is an exercise in utter futility. It's not going to happen. And that is basically what the Pakistan/Taliban peace agreement is... an exercise in futility. It's already proving a failure.

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First of all, you have 3 Taliban leaders in Wazaristan (Maulvi Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Nazir) who have regrouped and formed an alliance. This band of thugs calling themselves Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen, have pledged themselves to Mula Muhammad Umer and Osama Bin Laden, and vowed to continue with their Jihad against all

‘infidels’ led by US President Barack Obama, Pakistani President Asif Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Their aims are to

“stop the infidels from carrying out acts of barbarism against innocent people”.

Isn't that a little like the pot calling the kettle black? How many innocent people have the Taliban killed or maimed over the years, in both Pakistan and Afghanistan?!

Then you have Sufi Mohammed, head of the Pakistani Taliban in Swat, proclaiming to thousands at a rally in support of his purported peace deal that

‘We hate democracy. We want the occupation of Islam in the entire world. Islam does not permit democracy or election.’’

As I have mentioned before, if the Pakistani government thinks that Sufi and his cohorts will be satisfied with just the Swat region of the country, they are total fools.

And what about the latest kidnapping of a government official, Khushal Khan, and 6 of his guards in the Swat Valley, today? Not to mention the murder and beheading of tv reporter and journalist Musa Khan Khel?

All of this in what was supposed to be a 10 day ceasefire?

And although the Pakistani government agreed to a permanent cease-fire, Taliban militants have claimed it is merely temporary, for them, and they "consider an extension when it ends" , the operative words being "consider" and "extension".

Giving in to extremists will only make them demand more, and when those demands aren't met the violence will continue until they get more and more concessions.

Militants will never be able to live in peace, they're hard-wired for violence, and will always find reasons to kill, whether through their jihad against "infidels" or through their religious Sharia Law.