[Miss Marple]

Oh, for goodness sake. Do you think we AREN'T looking for him in Pakistan, and leaning on Musharrif to do it as well? We have rewards out, people combing those mountains, drone spy planes, Special Forces, etc. etc.

Peggy Noonan apparently thinks Preisdent Bush can't find Osama because he isn't really trying.

It is a ridiculous assumption, and YOUR spin isn't going to change my mind.

[RHINO369]

We are leaning on Musharrif but this falls into the same stupid strategy we used in Afghanistan. Use foreign soldiers as mercenaries to do what our soldiers do better. If we had just used 30 thousands marines in Afghanistan we would have caught OBL in Tora Bora.

If I were Bush I'd notify Special Ops teams are going to cross into his territory and that he wasn't going to stop us. I don't think they are currently. There is no reason our military can't find Bin Laden.

[SevenMinusOne]

Peggy Noonan apparently thinks Preisdent Bush can't find Osama because he isn't really trying.

It is a ridiculous assumption

Exactly right - Peggy is dead wrong in regard to the premise that we don't have UBL simply because we haven't gone after him enough (that simply isn't the case).

With that said, that UBL remains alive is definitely a real kick in the balls (to be polite). Killing him (along with Zawahiri, G. Hekmatyar in Stan and Zarqawi in Iraq) will be a big lift to our side and have a much larger negative effect on our enemies then most suspect.