re: #61 Killgore Trout

U.S. Marines Launch Major Operation in Afghanistan

Related: Poll: Pakistanis view Taliban as threat to country

More than 80 percent of Pakistanis view the Taliban and al-Qaida as a critical threat to the country, an opinion poll released Wednesday said, marking a turn in public opinion that stands to bolster the army’s ongoing offensive against militants close to the Afghan border.

Hopefully, this will turn the tide for not just the Afghanis, but Pakistanis too. It wasn’t until the Iraqis turned on the “insurgents” that Iraq became more stable.