[CBF]

At the end of the article the author questions why this is occurring now as opposed to one year ago. I'd say from references in the article to Pakistani resistance to U.S. lead attacks on their sovereign territory that was pretty obvious. This is attack by executive order, notice the congress wasn't even informed until the attacks took place; Likely without any knowledge or acceptance of the Pakistani authority. Open and closed case of years of diplomatic attempts to get the Pakistani gov. on board finally drawing to a close on the conclusion that they didn't ever really want the terrorists gone in the first place.

[radu]

Pakistan wasn’t doing much to get rid of terrorists while Musharraf headed things up. Now he’s out, Pakistan has shut off the supply route for NATO, and is openly defying America and the allies.
Glad to see President Bush say, “Screw ‘em. We’ll take care of business ourselves,” at last. Praying Bin Laden and Zawahiri are taken out before the year’s end.