[KLB]

We do seem to be making a lot of progress now and I think Pakistan gets some of the credit. But we've also been in country long enough now to have gained an ever-increasing intelligence foothold. Let me float something a Pakistani taxi driver in DC told me a few years ago - NOT my opinion but an interesting perspective from a Pakistani. He said he believed that the U.S. Military generally knew where the Taliban leadership and OBL were, but they wouldn't apprehend them because the justification for the War on Terror would be over. Again, not my opinion, but an interesting view from a Pakistani.

My nephew has been in Afghanistan for six months now, and we haven't heard a word from him in the last five, so I'm guessing he's on the move. But considering the new "resource" commitment and the job the Marines are doing in Marjah, it looks like we're turning a corner now, even if we coulduv shoulduv turned it sooner. Politics being what they are.....