My View

I had Columbus Day off yesterday so I slept. But I feel a very quick bit of analysis is needed over the Af-Pak troubles. The Taliban (Forget Al Qaeda they are in East Africa and Yemen now), are now trying to turn their focus to Pakistan from Afghanistan, they are doing this not because they are strong and not because they are winning in Afghanistan but precisely for the opposite reasons. The increasing accepted view is that the Americans have destroyed far more of the hard core Jihadists than they have understood. As a result while the Taliban tactics are increasing in sophistication they can carry out less of them(they have width in sophistication, but a lack of command and manpower depth) . Added with America and allies adapting to counter Taliban tactics, this has forced the Taliban to move to a far softer set of targets a.k.a Pakistan. So don’t look at the increasing number of attacks in Pakistan as the strength of the Taliban look on it as the exact opposite, we must help Pakistan win their part of the war and at the same time keep up the pressure on the Taliban on the afghan side of the border