How long before training the counterinsurgents turns into an advisory role for Pakistan’s army, which turns into direct military involvement?

I doubt it would come to that. But what I fear is that the training (and with it, sources and methods of counter-insurgency) would find its way not only into Pakistan’s government, but to the terrorists there eventually. To me, why trust the Pakistanis?

Our presence there should be to use the kind of force in the frontier areas that we carelessly did not use in Iraq, or even in Afghanistan. I wouldn’t mind seeing the area subjected to much worse stuff but I don’t think that will ever happen. (Hint: They, the terrorists, and anyone else refusing orders to leave would not be leaving after that. They might never be able to be seen, much less identified, ever again.)