So how do the Pakistanis like being on the receiving end?
At least 300 militants crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan and attacked a Pakistani checkpost, government and intelligence officials said on Monday, the sixth cross-border attack in a month that has raised tensions between the neighbors. ...
Pakistan says 56 members of the security forces have been killed and 81 wounded in a series of militant attacks from Afghanistan over the past month.
They don't like it, as a matter of fact. So what are they doing about it?
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that Pakistan had fired 470 rockets over the border in June. Pakistan has denied the allegations.
Huh. But the Pakistanis don't like us using drone strikes inside Pakistan.
So what can we do about insurgents crossing the border? The Pakistanis have it about right, I'd say:
"For quite some time we have been highlighting that there are safe havens across the border," Pakistan army spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas said. "Something should be done about these."
I think we might have been telling the Pakistanis the same thing for quite some time now. Welcome to the party.
UPDATE: Well, we are moving east:
On his last Fourth of July in uniform before becoming the new CIA director, Gen. David Petraeus said that come fall, more special forces, intelligence, surveillance, air power will be concentrated in areas along Afghanistan's rugged eastern border with Pakistan. There will be substantially more Afghan boots on the ground in the east and perhaps a small number of extra coalition forces too.
"There could be some small (coalition) forces that will move, but this is about shifting helicopters — lift and attack. It's about shifting close-air support. It's about shifting, above all, intelligence, surveillance and recognizance assets," he said in interviews with The Associated Press and three other news outlets.
Over the last year or so we've focused on the Taliban south; and in the east we've carried out "shaping" operations--missions not designed to win but to set the stage for the effort to win. Now that we've made such progress in the south, we'll shift assets to the eastern fight.
