New Terrorist Nexus.

Iraq and the war on terror — and Washington's inability to focus on more than one major foreign crisis at a time — have overshadowed the shifting geographic nexus of Islamist extremism. Afghanistan, where suicide bombers are now striking throughout the country; the Afghan-Pakistani border, where Taliban and al Qaeda have reconstituted their strongholds with virtual impunity; and a chaotic Pakistan, which many terrorists call home, should be the new U.S. geostrategic priorities.

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