No one is arguing against an operation or action against terrorists, but when you have the most terror infested province sidelined in this decisions, how do you even think it's gonna be successful?
What the establishment failed to realize in the end was that it all came down to sitting at the table from across the people you wanted to kill. As Sun Tzu said, "The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Unless you have the ability to throw the enemy into a trench from which they can't escape, and the only solution is death.
Twenty years, one learned the hard way, sat at the table, and walked away, and then you have the mental midget still going at it. I showed the statistics in this thread or another. IK was not a good leader in his totality. He did have faults, as any human being would, but during his three years, the attacks decreased considerably and picked back up afterward. Change comes slowly and not overnight.