While we patrol the streets of Baghdad ...

Taliban Spreading, Pakistani President Is Warned

The Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, was warned this month that Islamic militants and Taliban fighters were rapidly spreading beyond the country’s lawless tribal areas and that without “swift and decisive action,” the growing militancy could engulf the rest of the country.

The warning came in a document from the Interior Ministry, which said Pakistan’s security forces in North-West Frontier Province abutting the tribal areas were outgunned and outnumbered and had forfeited authority to the Taliban and their allies.

... It appears to be the first such document to emerge from the Pakistani government formally recognizing the seriousness of the spreading threat here from Al Qaeda and the Taliban, according to a Western diplomat.

... “It’s tragic it’s taken so long to recognize it,” the diplomat added.

What's more egregious, what we've wasted in Iraq or what we've neglected where the real 'evildoers' are?