Fuchs,

I'm not sure why you're fixated on the word "general" in that question. It could be asked of anyone.

Bill,

None the less to Fuchs point, I think the greater risk to our military strategy (since that is the strategy we are pursuing currently) is continuing to ignore the safe havens. This is so obvious that a 6th grader would recognize it, and his dad would have a very hard time explaining to him why his brother died in a conflict that we're not committed to winning.
We haven't ignored the safe-havens. We've known about them since late 2001. Musharraf explicitly and publicly denied us the ability to do "hot pursuit" in early 2002. The problem isn't that we're ignoring the safe-havens - the problem is that we are unwilling to deal with the consequences of violating Pakistani sovereignty.