The War on Terror: after 5 years, what has it achieved?

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The quote below is Bush explaining why he won't go after AQ in Pakistan. To me it shows an exceptional aptitude for doublethink ..... these qualms about going into sovereign nations just somehow didn't exist with Afghanistan and Iraq........ but now, no, we couldn't possibly go into Pakistan without being invited!!
Could it have anything to do with Pakistan having their own nukes and much more modern armaments, do you think? Or has Bush been taking etiquette lessons on the sly?

On another front, he rejected charges that his administration has not done enough to catch Al-Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden as an "urban myth" fueled by political ambitions.

"We have been on the hunt, and we'll stay on the hunt until we bring him to justice," said Bush.

But he acknowledged telling a conservative journalist earlier this week that he would not send "thousands of troops" into the remote region of the Pakistan border with Afghanistan, where bin Laden is thought to be hiding.

"If he is in Pakistan," said Bush, "Pakistan's a sovereign nation. In order for us to send thousands of troops into a sovereign nation, we've got to be invited by the government of Pakistan."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060915/wl_mideast_afp/irannuclearpoliticsus