Center for a New American Security

Foreign Policy has an interesting profile of Baitullah Mehsud up.  He's clearly a prime candidate to receive a visit from a Predator drone.  But when I read this article, I can't help but remember our earlier preoccupation with taking down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.  We expended a lot of time and resources to get him, but it didn't seem to prevent AQI from escalating its attacks through the second half of 2006.  Would knocking