This story out of Pakistan has a good lesson for the Obama administration:
Emboldened by the government’s concessions (emphasis mine) , Taliban fighters began moving into Buner and nearby Shangla district. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said around 450 Taliban were reported to have sneaked into Buner on Monday.
The fighting that has followed is really the result of those concessions:
The Taliban’s creeping advances across Malakand have raised alarm in the United States that the militants were zeroing in on Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and stoked fears that the Washington’s nuclear-armed ally was on the verge of sliding into chaos.
The administration should take this to heart.
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