Pakistan's Border Badlands Are a Challenge for the Next President

In Pakistan, a truck that was carrying fuel to U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

The U.S. military plans to open six more such border centers by winter. More will need to be done, of course, including stronger action by Pakistan to root out al Qaeda and to constrain Afghan insurgents. Says Milley, "At some point in order for there to be resolution to the insurgency in Afghanistan—and Pakistan for that matter—both sides have got to come to grips with the issue of the border." And so, too, will the next president of the United States.

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