Taliban fighters leaving Buner, Pakistan, on Friday. Naveed Ali/Associated Press‘Stop The Taliban Now – Or We Will’ -- Times Online
The US got tough with Pakistan as terrorists moved to within 60 miles of the capital.
AMERICA made clear last week that it would attack Taliban forces in their Swat valley stronghold unless the Pakistan government stopped the militants’ advance towards Islamabad.
A senior Pakistani official said the Obama administration intervened after Taliban forces expanded from Swat into the adjacent district of Buner, 60 miles from the capital.
The Pakistani Taliban’s inroads raised international concern, particularly in Washington, where officials feared that the nuclear-armed country, which is pivotal to the US war against the Taliban in Afghanistan and against Al-Qaeda, was rapidly succumbing to Islamist extremists.
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My Comment: This is an empty threat. The Pakistani Government knows that the U.S. is not going to do anything except increase drone strikes and maybe .... and this is a big maybe .... conduct hot pursuits of Taliban into Pakistani territory from Afghanistan. To wage serious war in the Swat District with U.S. troops .... the manpower and the logistics will not make it possible.
Sadly .... the U.S. has neither the military force nor political will to escalate the war in Pakistan. The CIA with their paramilitary advisers may be of some help .... but when one looks at Washington today, all CIA officers know that their biggest threat comes from back home and not the Taliban.