Today in "The secrets of Obama's surge" Pepe Escobar says that "the President is not exactly telling all that’s going on in AfPak", and argues there are many more strategic issues at play than meets the eye - and the President and his team's spin:

President Obama's highly anticipated new strategy for what the Pentagon now calls AfPak - Afghanistan and Pakistan - is full of grey areas.

Most extra troops will be deployed to poppy-growing areas, not to fight al-Qaeda, the President's stated number one objective.

The President talks about building trust - but as the US cannot trust the Pakistani ISI, the Pakistani people don't trust the US or even their own government.