it's not that simple....
the americans don't get pakistan....
the goverment does not and never has run the border regions , these places run themselves ... the US does not get that....
the corrupt government officals in pakistan are being paid by the US to attack these people .... the goverment officals make out it is difficult and they need more money and that the pakistan army is helping the people living in the border regions and therefore they can't do anything about it.
the truth is .... these are poor tribal people .... who live by a code of an eye for an eye .... everytime they are attacked by drones , shelling whatever and an innocent child or women is killed and thousands have been killed .... the entire village is then honour bound to avenge the death of the children.... so they join the taleban and help attack american and pakistan soldgiers untill they have killed some ... then they go back to their fields ....
the us just does not get that .... if they were more careful in targeting the terrorists ... the villagers would not join in to help and the insurgency would die out .
As there is no police, no army , no law in these regions other than the tribe this honour code of avenging the death has kept the peace for hundereds of years .
since if someone from another tribe kills one of yours the entire village , tribe will attack them... and this has kept the law.
the americans have come in and killed lots of innocent women and children so even the villagers who hate the taleban are forced to join them to avenge the killing of thier fellow tribe members.
If the US ever figure that out. what they should do is not bribe the corrupt officals in the pakistan goverment , but pay compensation or blood money to the tribes so that they then do not have to attack the americans .....
but we live in a mad world... one the signs of madness is doing something that doesn't work for 10 years and then just thinking if we do it some more it will work in the end !!!