Quote of the Day

"We don't have combat boots on the ground in Pakistan. What we are seeing is Pakistani government, Pakistani army taking action against some of these safe havens, disrupting them and increasingly coordinating with us in, not in cross-border, but on either-side-of-the-border operations against these groups. I think that the Pakistanis taking it on is clearly preferable."

"We have said all along that they have gotten to where they need to be. We are pretty impatient people... we want everything done yesterday. But, they are doing things that we would have been skeptical they would do even a year, year and a half ago."

- US Defense Secretary Robert Gates