Dubious Reassurance

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Did you perchance hear that our *ahem* stalwart ally, Pakistan, is having problems expunging the Taliban in the Swat valley and elsewhere? It's quite sad--Islamabad can't exert itself in the western hinterlands for want of military strength and political will; the inclement geography doesn't help. Anyhow, the latest campaign should prove an interesting spectacle.