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Pakistan: A Hard Country

This is old and will get burried in the replies, but I have to offer a few corrections:

1. The VAST majority of the kids in that school were from civlian NOT military families.
   
   
2. The FATA is the Federally Administred Tribal Areas, while the Northwest Fronier Province is the former name of the current Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province. This is not a small correction - the KP Province is a part of Pakistan like New York State is part of the Union or Tasmania is part of Australia. The FATA is more similar to the American Indian land - and the people who live there have mostly just done their tribal thing up until 9/11. The Pakistani Military entered the FATA for the first time in history after 9/11 and some of the tribal folk haven't taken too kindly to that.
   
   
3. Your attribution of this tragedy to "Pashtun Revenge" is akin to the "Black Rage" defense used in America.
   
   The geopolitics of the that TTP and the Afghan Taleban are very complicated and your McSummary does not do it justice. I'm happy for your Reddit gold, and I'm heartened that your post wasn't hateful; it's clear that your heart is in the right place. But your explanation is just deeply flawed and overly simplistic.
   
   For those interested: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pakistan-Hard-Country-Anatol-Lieven/dp/0141038241