Want To End Predator Strikes? Take Control of Taliban Territories

Pakistan continues to complain about the U.S. Predator campaign against al Qaeda and Taliban leaders and operatives in Pakistan’s tribal areas, even after it has been disclosed that bases inside Pakistan are being used to conduct the strikes. Pakistan’s Inter-Service Intelligence agency told the New York Times that these strikes, as well as U.S. plans to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, “are having an increasingly destabilizing effect on their country.”