"Bring 'em on! And if there aren't enough, make more. We gotta have a wartime presidency, don't we?

Border Backlash
Musharraf's attempt to police the tribal areas with the Army has bred a new generation of extremists.

By Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain
Newsweek International
July 31, 2006 issue - Just over three years ago, under pressure from Washington to stop Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters from crossing the porous border into Afghanistan, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf began dispatching tens of thousands of Pakistani troops to the country's tribal regions.

"Not only are the Pakistani militants now stronger than ever, the links between the pro-Taliban, ethnic Pashtun tribes in Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban across the border, who are also Pashtuns, have been strengthened. The resurgence of the Afghan Taliban, who last week briefly captured two district towns in southern Afghanistan, has only increased the morale and muscle of their Pakistani brethren."

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