Along with taking the largest city in the Swat region, they are now fighting taliban in waziristan. This is the key region and it's pretty clear what has happened here recently.

The new administration has applied major and constant pressure on Pakistan and they have finally agreed to take over waziristan. It won't be easy, but obviously they are convinced Obama will stick by them through the long haul: Billions in development and health aid to follow these troops into waziristan, and close and constant consultation and coordination with Richard Holbrooke there now full time. The increase in troops in Afghanistan was also a clear message that if they didn't deal with this threat to the world from within their borders themselves, we would.

In other words, it took about four months for the new admin to get Pakistan to begin pacification of waziristan. The Bush team couldn't get their puppet Mushareff to do it in 6 years. This is a very big mess and unfortunately it got a lot bigger because the previous administration had focused so much on Iraq and not Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is absolutely undeniable, and of course Bush denies it! If he truly believes that he is stupider than I thought, otherwise he is a liar.