The Taliban were - our hope of change through violence. Whatever the reason for Pakistans geopolitical support and betrayal of them, and whatever their transformations and permutations, that is what they have meant to us.
The question then is, how have we been wrong? Perhaps we cannot acknowledge that we are fighting them because we would then have to own that our dream of a change through violence on which, by the way, Pakistan doesnt have a monopoly has to be resisted. What other form can resistance and change take? That is what the debate has to be about. And that is why political discussions cannot be about politics alone.

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