I tend to agree somewhat with this article. When we send in the troops people will start dying. As soon as a single innocent civilian dies then we will lose Pakistan's support. We must extract Osama Bin Laden without a single civilian casualty, and that is a very hard tactical problem. It may involve a very concentrated and thorough net of tracking systems. Impossible you say?

Would it be more expensive to drop thousands of $$$million bombs and missiles versus setting up an ever tightening series of checkpoints to regulate traffic? This would be to identify & distinguish normal people from the ones we want to arrest. This is what we do in our country - we've built infrastructure that allows normal people to report crime and pinpoint its location. The poor people of Afghanistan have nothing like this.

Maybe we should make a fair trade with the Afghanis.... a large aid package if they turn over these terrorists? It seems slow perhaps, but maybe it would work?