Today's Headlines and Commentary

Big Pakistan news day today.

The Associated Press reports that ISAF Commander General John Allen is meeting the Frenemies today to discuss the still-at-large Haqqani network and the still-not-open supply routes. Good luck to him.

There is no mention of this in the U.S. press, but the third round of the UK-Pakistan National Security Dialogue commenced yesterday, according to the Pakistani Express Tribune. The focus of the talks is "counter-terrorism, regional security and issues of mutual interest including Afghanistan." Good luck to the British.

CNN tells us that a drone killed four suspected militants in--you guessed it--Waziristan.

Gideon Rachman, writing in the South African Business Day, argues that Pakistani nukes make it a much more menacing and formidable problem than Iran.

Meanwhile, half our readers will be out of a job if Peter Bergen of CNN is correct that it’s time to "declare victory" over Al Qaeda, and that:

[We should] move on to focus on the essential challenges now facing America, notably the country's sputtering economy, but also containing a rising China, managing the rogue regime in North Korea, continuing to delay Iran's acquisition of nuclear weapons, and - to the extent feasible - helping to direct the maturation of the Arab Spring.

Thirty-one senators have sent a letter to AG Eric Holder, asking him once again to appoint a special counsel to investigate the leaks, reports the Hill. Good luck to them.

Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari--the Saudi student who was at Texas Tech on a scholarship to study chemical engineering, and who was arrested last year for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction--is going to hear closing arguments in his case today. His attorneys decided not to call any witnesses or present any evidence, according to the AP.

Agence France Press informs us that Khalid Sheik Mohammed's lawyers have "asked the UN to investigate their client's alleged torture at Guantanamo Bay."

Joseph Singh (no relation) discusses whether "the strategic costs of Obama's drone policy [are] greater than the short term gains," in this article posted in Foreign Policy.

Reps. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) have an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that it is a costly mistake for the Obama administration to ignore the threat of weapons of mass destruction or bombs in cargo shipments arriving in the United States.

From the Frenemy Press comes this editorial in Dawn, Pakistan's leading English-language newspaper, in which the board argues that it is time to "finally tackle safe havens in North Waziristan." Here's hoping.

And given the swelling number of stories about our Frenemies today, it only stands to reason that we confront this weighty problem facing the bloated Pakistani police force—today’s Moment of Zen.

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