He's not going to avoid trying to capture Osama because he said something stupid and that he probably regrets. Be realistic.

The border region of Afghanistan is a son of a bitch. High altitude, dirt roads, moutainous terrain, and all the while you are forced to foot it with all a few hundred pounds of gear and water. Meanwhile the people who are indiginous to that area run up and down the mountains like it's nothing, plus don't they're not encumbered with all the equipment US Forces have to carry.

It sounds easy to just envelop the Taliban in a joint operation, but there are so many problems with that, one being that any plans made with the Pakistanis would be relayed to the ones we're trying to capture before the op ever kicked off by Taliban sympathizers.

It could be done but we'd have to ditch some current shitty policies that don't allow something like this to be possible.