That all terrorists need to be eliminated and that their ideology needs to be delegitimized instead of saying they have some legitimate grievances against the west, basically no grievance actually allows something like what happened in peshawar. they don t want any education, certainly not for girls, right? they don t want education for girls, they don t want western education. they want a specific type of education. but this was about retaliation for the pakistani army s belated but effort to keep them from having a safe haven in pakistan. but unfortunately pakistan s problem has been, as hillary clinton put it, that you can t have snakes in your backyard in the hope that they will only bite the neighbors. today these snakes of course are biting pakistanis and pakistan needs to have a comprehensive strategy against all jihadi groups. these children, 130 out of 141 people who were killed, 130 at least schoolkids, they re
How powerful are they? why do they do these things? they ve been around in different guises for several years now. elements of the pakistani military and the pakistani sky agency have encouraged them, have given them have supplied them. in the last two or three years, their wrath has been turned at the pakistani state. their grievances are quite complex. there are tribal grievances, ethnic grievances. they have this view of the world that we are now familiar with from islamic terrorist groups around the world, they want to return to this idea of pure islamic state as it existed during the time of the prophet muhammad 1,400 years ago. their views about modern education, about women and girls are very retrograde. and they have demonstrated over and over again they have no qualms about targeting children,