Pakistani internal security (catch all)

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My strong suspicion is that such temporal, tactical gains produce far more strategic downside than upside on today's global "battlefield."

I look at it this way: who do we want commanding our enemy's forces? To use an OIF example, I think that killing Zarqawi was wise. Likewise, I think that not killing al-Masri was wise. It was better to have al-Masri running the show than Zarqawi.