Wacamole, Pakistan style.

If you grew up in DC, you played wacamole at Funland. (OK that is totally DC-centric, I am sure they had wacamole at cheesy beach boardwalk amusement parks all over the country, and not just in Rehobeth.) There is clearly a more adult like game of wacamole going on in Pakistan, except this one involves drones, instead of a not a squishy mallet tied to a rope and militants instead of instead of plastic gerbils.

There have been many reports of this Pakistani wacamole, though I am definitely the first to call it as such. As the US drops drone bombs on the traditionally strictly autonomous regions in Pakistan (like FATA, federally administered tribal area), where the militants have been laying low and doing their thing since Pakistan was created decades ago, a variety of militant types are scattering into the central state. (By variety I mean some of them are hard core extremist, militant, red white and blue hating Taliban; some are people the former group have coopted out of fear and intimidation (Kilcullen's 'accidental guerrillas'), others might be folks who have lived in the region for a while and were recently ticked them off by drones dropping bombs on; I know there are other types in there, I am not going to try to describe the motivation of all of them.)

There was an article on this yesterday in the NYTimes. I will find other better ones and post them here tomorrow.