Tom Ricks on FDL

The author of the Gamble held an online Q&A session on Firedoglake yesterday. It's here for those of you who watched the basketball instead! Hosted by Spencer Ackerman it didn't suffer from too many idiotic rants/questions but instead raised some interesting points on both the surge and, more relevant to today, the question of whether the Pakistani police are up to the challenges of COIN, especially as it's becoming clear the military isn't pulling its weight.