And this happy scene is like, how long after the war in Kosovo?
By my count, it's quite a bit more than five months, isn't it?
And, as the article points out, the area isn't trouble-free still. Had Bush used troops and an armored personnel carrier to visit a nation, you would have jeered at how worried he was about being attacked.
And the troops are still there. What's the exit strategy after over ten years?