Gameface, you are wrong on this. If the UN takes a role in finding him then he becomes marginalized. The moderates in the Arab world get emboldened to help out in finding him as well because they feel they have a voice in the UN and certainly don't get that sense when it is just the US coming running through all their kitchens. Tell me this, if we had stuck to just going into Afghanistan and sent 140,000 troops there along with the UN contributions and the pressure that would have put on Pakistan, don't you think we would have Bin Laden by now? Of course we would. And tell me this, who is more important to the US to have in custody, Sadam or Bin Laden?
Following all that logic, we would have liberated an oppressed country and set up a strong democracy with a rule of law and where the average people would be welcoming us. They would be glad to get rid of the corrupt warlords who have every interest in keeping the country backward and at war. In short we would have done all the things we were supposed to do in Iraq, yet we haven't quite seemed to accomplish. So if the missions were really that important, why didn't we stick to the one that was very winnable first? Or maybe we should all just admit the stated missions weren't all that important in the first place...