The bleak assessment
October 10, 2008 The latest missile attacks in the North Waziristan Agency on Thursday killed as many as nine people, including three of a family. The Bush Administration is adamant that the assaults on alleged militant targets in the tribal areas are legal under the self-defence provisions of the UN charter. But it should not ignore that a surge in cross-border strikes will make it difficult for the new democratic dispensation to convince the nation that "we are fighting our on war".
