Not all the money in the U.S. Treasury will keep Pakistan from protecting its flank, and supporting the Insurgency against America in Afghanistan.  Why does Pakistan allow Waziristan, a terrorist state within Pakistan's borders, to operate in total disregard for the, alleged, alliance with the U.S.A.?  More importantly still, why does the U.S. allow it?

- J.M. Hamilton

WASHINGTON — The White House sought to reassert control over the public debate on the Afghanistan war on Monday as political reaction to the disclosure of a six-year archive of classified military documents increased the pressure on President Obama to defend his war strategy.

On Capitol Hill, leading Democratic lawmakers said the documents, with their fine-grain portrayal of a war faring even more poorly than two administrations have previously portrayed, would intensify congressional scrutiny of Mr. Obama’s policy.

“Those policies are at a critical stage, and these documents may very well underscore the stakes and make the calibrations needed to get the policy right more urgent,” Senator John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat who heads the Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement.

The House this week takes up a critical war-financing bill and a Senate panel is expected to hold a hearing on Mr. Obama’s choice to head the military’s Central Command, Gen. James N. Mattis, who would oversee military operations in Afghanistan.