Cross-Border Attacks On The Increase in Afghanipakistan

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Usually when you hear about cross-border attacks here, they are perpetrated by the Taliban. Not so much in recent weeks — this time it’s the U.S. dipping its toes into Pakistan, which Sen. John McCain has said Sen. Barack Obama is naive for proposing.

Last week, the U.S. allegedly went after a target in Pakistan — something that the U.S. military never confirmed but nonetheless prompted Pakistan’s new government to shut down a crucial NATO resupply entry point. Today comes word that the U.S. fired a missile at the old-school Taliban commander Jalaladeen Haqqani’s Pakistan redoubt.