For years, the Bush administration has lived in fear of this moment. The formal consensus view of the U.S. intelligence community is that Pakistan’s federally administrated tribal areas (“FATA” is the new jargon-y acronym, natch) is al-Qaeda’s new “safehaven,” where the al-Qaeda Senior Leadership (similarly, AQSL) is reconstituting its “Homeland attack capability.” Now comes the hard question: what to do about it?
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180364