We have a long standing and pleasant diplomatic relationship with Pakistan.

Hold on , I thought the american backed dictator just lost power

What would you have done?
I do wish someone would sticky my Iraq and Afghanistan posts so people don't keep asking the same questions year after year .

Even Obama has proposed incursions into Waziristan and the rest of the border regions without adequate Pakistani action.
Yes because they are now so backed into a corner . They is buggered ain't they.

If anything, the Bush administration has avoided it for too long.
Actually the Bush administration screwed the Afghan plan from day 1 , its not just that they avoided the issue of the tribal belt , its that they blundered blindly during the whole Afghan fiasco .
Well no thats not fair really , they were not blind , the Armed forces had lots of studies on what to do if the area and what not to do , the administration decided not to just ignore the whole lot but to go against many of the core theories at the planning stage, so they wasn't blind just stupid .