Pakistan should have been give an ultimatum to give up Bin Laden and the Taliban before the war in Iraq.
They don't control the border regions. It is that simple. These regions of Pakistan have been autonomous from any Gov't for centuries....
Moving on Iraq like we did (when we did) was the correct course of action....The complexities of the Pak border regions where going to remain regardless....
Learning to deal with those complexities was going to be a timely process.....a process we are currently weaving our way through....
Bottom line is, it is a sh*t part of the world and an even sh*tter area to operate in or to bring progress to....
Do we need the Pak Gov't to do more? Yes (where they can). But cutting the funding they need to even be adequate at the jobs we need them to do....would serve no benefit to us (in the big picture).
The situation sucks. Plain and simple. Thought the concept of saying to hell with it....come hell or high-water we're coming in to drag UBL and Zawahiri out is a mindset at times I could really agree with....(though even that doesn't mean we'd catch the SOB in any short time period). Understand Zarqawi survived in Iraq over 3 years while we had a 140,000 + U.S. soldiers on the ground there (and the support of the majority of the people).
We wouldn't have the support of 5% of the people in these border regions of Pak...