Supporters of Pro-Taliban cleric Sufi Muhammad march in Swat's main city of Mingora on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 in Pakistan. A hardline cleric led hundreds of supporters in a peace march in Pakistan's Swat Valley on Wednesday aimed at convincing Taliban militants to lay down their weapons under a pact with the government. (AP Photo/Sherin Zada)From The Telegraph:
American officials have privately backed Pakistan's "Sharia law for peace" deal with Taliban militants in the Swat Valley despite publicly criticising it as a "negative development".
The deal, under which Sharia law will be introduced in the Malakhand and Kohistan districts of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province if Taliban militants end their armed campaign in the Swat Valley, has been met with alarm by Nato chiefs and British and American officials.
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My Comment: Taking the lesser of two evils is still evil .... a concept that some U.S. officials have trouble understanding.
This "peace agreement" is not going to stop the war. If anything .... it is going to expand to the neighboring provinces.