Thursday, January 31, 2008

Pakistan OH! Pakistan

If you don't do the rat killin', then we'll do it for you.

The Asia Times says that the US has built a base right on the Afghan-Pakistan border for the purposes of raiding into Pakistan, with or without Islamabad's approval. Al-Qaeda's impotent attacks on the base only resulted in AQ retreating further into Pakistan.

Bill Roggio writes in the Weekly Standard that Pakistan has finally admitted it has a counterinsurgency problem (!), and is ramping up to meet it (really?). However, the problem has now metastized beyond the tribally administered areas into parts of Pakistan.

Plus, Musharraf & Karzai are set to square off.
Wretchard has all the details.