Quote of the Week

"Gates is drinking...the Kool-Aid this administration has for the last six years. My info suggests that [the Pakistanis] are not doing very well in Swat." -- Anonymous Pentagon specialist in counter-terrorism efforts on the Afghan-Pakistani border, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of losing his job. (He was referring to Defense Secretary Robert Gates' assessment that the Pakistani army had had "some success" fighting "al-Qaeda" in the province of Swat. The specialist also said the fighters involved were not al-Qaeda, but a local Islamist extremist group.)