I feel safer now!

From the trenches--the front lines of the true War On Terror and not the SCWOT (So-Called War On Terror), President General Musharraf of Pakistan assuaged the fears and concerns brought by US Vice President Dick Cheney to a meeting in Islamabad earlier this week. According to the Boston Globe:

Musharraf vowed yesterday to take "stiff action" to expel foreign militants from Pakistan's mountainous border regions, the Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported.

"These people are putting Pakistan in danger. These people should leave and go, otherwise we will have to deal with them , and we are dealing with them," APP quoted him as saying.

AP reporter, Munir Ahmad, elsewhere in the article, also pointed out that new US Intelligence Chief, Mike McConnell told the Senate Armed Services Committee that he thought bin Laden was in North Waziristan. He said he was very concerned that the Taleban were planning a major Spring offensive against the government of Afghanistan and the coalition forces there.

In reference to the region of northwest Pakistan where al Qaeda is allegedly setting up jihadi training camps, McConnell added:

the camps are in an area that has never been governed by any state or outside power.

Maybe we need Bush to do a Teddy Roosevelt and lead the charge into the terrorist sanctuaries, the no-man's land in the remote foothills of the western Himalayas. That would calm everybody's fears!