Friday, November 7, 2008

A New Strategy For Pakistan -- A Commentary

What Do You Mean, Bin Laden Doesn't Exist? -- Times Online

Obama must rethink America's muddled strategy in Pakistan if he is to defeat the threat from militants.

America's President-elect was being watched a lot closer to the front lines of the US War on Terror than he may have been aware on Saturday night.

As Barack Obama's face shone from a huge wide screen television into the officers' mess at a Pakistani army fortress in Khar, in the tribal area of Bajaur, the room shook to heavy artillery blasting from gun positions at the gates. Barely a mile up the road Pakistani troops traded fire with Taleban raiding parties.

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