There's a never-ending stream of Taliban leaders being killed. The latest, according to CNN, was Maulawi Dadullah, who was dispatched by drone in northwestern Pakistan the other day along with a number of bystanders, or his "senior aides" if you will.
There is of course no way to independently verify such a report.
But based on the track record we can safely surmise that two or three senior leaders have already emerged to take his place. Here's a list of 74 "Senior al Qaeda and Taliban leaders" executed by American air strikes just in Pakistan.
And here's a British story boasting about the "industrial scale" slaughter of senior Taliban leaders over the course of a few months in 2010.
But apparently the Taliban are stronger than ever, and today control more territory than at any time since the invasion.
Maybe it's time to try something else.
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