>>>I am not saying we should attack Pakistan. (Our "sort of ally" -- apt phrase). I am saying we should go into the remote mountain areas in eastern Pakistan, where Osama bin Laden is reputed to be, and looking for him. That's a quite different thing.
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>>So you're saying the US should definitely not send armed forces into Pakistan, but should send armed forces instead. I see the difference.
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>Cute, as always. Since I know you understand the difference between an invasion/attack and a search, there is no need for me to expound on it.

A search is a direct breach of a sovereignty of a country. Are you assuming that guys in US uniforms are somehow within their jurisdiction? That them not being in a shock wave and coming in on airplanes, choppers, bombers and tanks somehow makes them look like a charity? The size of force doesn't change anything: you want the armed forces of one country to operate in another country, period.

If you dig deeper, you'll find that it was the request by one country to do police action in another that was the one unacceptable point of the ultimatum, which then started the WWI.

If this is not clear, let's try another angle: Nikola Kavaja, the known terrorist, who once even hijacked an airplane and repeatedly attempted to pull together an assasination of President Tito. Now Tito would have been within his rights to get a few guys and fly them over here to "clean him out", and the non-innocent civilians in Langley who were aiding and abetting, right? He was one of the anti-communist, slightly pro-fascist guys, a remainder of the pre-WWII antidemocratic regime, who openly took to terrorism as a method. So imagine we're in late 70s, and here SFR Yugoslavia has a proven terrorist guy, who has committed acts of terrorism against her, who wanted to assassinate the president, and who resides on the territory of her sort-of ally, supported by a group of locals who were known to often do things without explicit blessings of their government. So, as you say, they should have sent some limited force to clean out the remainders of, eh? And the locals aren't innocent because they supported the terrorist, right?