THAT's not a GWOT we can believe in

This is two weeks late, but don't miss Dexter Filkin's long NY Times Magazine piece on the current state of play of the war against the Taliban and Al Qaeda along the Durand Line. 

Filkins's analysis, at bottom, is simple: the Pakistani military wants the war against the Taliban to go on forever, because if it ever ends, the billions ($12B since 2001) flowing from Washington will cease. That means they need to keep fighting the war, but it also means they need to not win it.

As they say over at TPM, that's not a GWOT we can believe in!