Obama to urge new offensives...

So today Senator Obama will make a speech in which he says an Obama administration will strike Al Qaeda cells in Pakistan, as well as send more troops to Afghanistan (while pulling out from Iraq). Muscular-sounding. Which is what he's seeking. And being more aggressive against Al Q in Pakistan isn't a bad idea. One suspects here, though, that the Obama camp is being a bit reactive, trying to burnish it's tough-on-terror and knowledgeable-on-foreign-policy credentials in the wake of last week's dust-up with the Clinton campaign over meeting with foreign leaders. Is Obama really sincere about this? It smacks less of sincerity, and more of a political move, to me. But Democrats will have to decide. UPDATE: and maybe I'm too hasty in suggesting that Obama might have a much of an idea here in the first place. Obama is suggesting striking in Pakistan even if its government doesn't give us the OK. That's reckless, given that for example the Musharraf regime has been cooperative with us to a point vs Al Qaeda (do we want to risk that?), and given that Pakistan has nukes (if we invade Pakistan to go after Al Q but without their consent, do we want to risk a war with a nuclear-armed Pakistan?). John Podhoretz at The Corner suggests Obama put this forward only for effect, that he'd never do it. He may be right.