How can the media report this with a straight face?

Bush: U.S. to enter Pakistan if needed to find bin Laden

By Seattle Times news services
Thursday, September 21, 2006 - 12:00 AM

WASHINGTON — President Bush said Wednesday he would order military action inside Pakistan if intelligence indicated that Osama bin Laden or other top terror leaders were hiding there.

"Absolutely," Bush said in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.

Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf reacted with displeasure to Bush's comments.

"We wouldn't like to allow that. We'd like to do that ourselves," he told a news conference.
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Later he said...

"There will be no al-Qaeda activity in our tribal [area] or across the border in Afghanistan," Musharraf said. "There will be no Taliban activity. . . . There will be no Talibanization."

Bush said he was satisfied with those assurances. "When the president looks me in the eye and says the tribal deal is intended to reject the Talibanization of the people, and that there won't be a Taliban and won't be al-Qaeda, I believe him," he said.

(Bush Seeks Increased Pakistani Cooperation:Musharraf Vows Fight Against 'Talibanization'

By Michael Abramowitz and Karen DeYoung, Washington Post Staff Writers, Saturday, September 23, 2006; Page A02)
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Meanwhile at the end of the largely postive artice in the washington post cited above, was this little paragraph:

Musharraf's promise yesterday of greater cooperation in fighting the Taliban drew mixed reaction from outside experts on the region, who noted that militia commanders continue to operate in the Pakistani provincial capital Quetta -- with the tacit approval of the Pakistani government. "The problem is Musharraf is proving to be an incredibly grudging ally," said Robert Templer, director of the Asia program for the International Crisis Group, which closely monitors events in Pakistan and Afghanistan. "He has received a lot of U.S. aid, and he is simply not delivering on the really critical security issues."