Anti-India Militants Still Going Strong

Lydia Polgreen and Souad Mekhennet have a great piece in the NYT looking at the continuing strength of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group responsible for the Mumbai attacks. I think the main moral of the story is basically that we shouldn’t overplay the idea that militant organization’s success in Pakistan represents a lack of capacity to clamp down on them. When the Pakistani security services want to take action, as they have against the Pakistani Taliban recently, they’re pretty effective. When they don’t—and it seems they don’t in this case—then nothing happens.