Pakistan just might be the thorniest of the myriad pressing foreign policy challenges that will demand President Obama's attention the minute he's sworn in. Josh Hammer has this summary of the several recent terrorist attacks conducted by Taliban-allied forces. Meanwhile, the United States continues to target Al Qaeda militants living on the Pakistani side of the Afghanisan-Pakistan border. Today's strike took place in Kam Sam, a village in North Waziristan – a frontier province sympathetic to the Taliban and Al Qaeda which had declared independence and achieved an uneasy truce with the government two years ago.
