War IN Pakistan

It sounds like one of the elements that will be coming out of the administration's Afghan/Pakistan policy review is the recognition that the US is, in fact, at war inside Pakistan against that loosely grouped spectrum of Taleban and Islamists that spread across the region.

That sounds like a very tricky sell to me, to tell the Pakistani people that we're at war in your country, not on your country.

....especially when it's Pakistani innocents who are being killed by both sides. Today, (AP) at least 48 killed in a near the border mosque by a suicide bomber.

Pictures of attack sites, both Taleban bombings like this one and US drone attacks, are going to make the politics and propaganda in Pakistan very, very hard.

Later: The NYTimes front pages a supporting article, well "sourced" to support the idea of this strategy saying that all of the region's Islamist forces have now joined.

Whether or not it's true, the timing and placement of the article makes it look more like a support piece for the coming policy announcement than anything else.