Bombing their own people

Several days ago, the Pakistani government learned that a madrasa in a village called Chingai was being used by "terrorists". But rather than sending in the police or the military to arrest those involved and try them for their crimes (whatever they might have been), they bombed it, killing 80 people.

That's bad enough, but it gets worse. It turns out that not all of the people the Pakistani government sentenced to death without trial were terrorists. In Chingai, villagers are digging bits of children out of the rubble. Among the dead was Maulana Liaqatullah, the leader of the madrasa. He was a radical Islamist, a supporter of the Taleban with "links" to Al Qaeda - but even in Pakistan that doesn't justify execution without trial. These people were murdered, by a lawless government that bombs its own people - and what sort of government does that?

And as if that isn't bad enough, ABC is reporting that according to Pakistani intelligence sources, the airstrike was an attempt to assassinate Al Qaeda number 2 Ayman al Zawahiri, and was carried out not by Pakistani helicopter gunships, but by a US drone.

You can just imagine how this is going down in Pakistan. The one thing worse than a government which bombs its own people is one which has foreigners do it for them. So people are on the streets chanting "death to Bush" and calling for jihad against America, and tomorrow, they'll be helping Al Qaeda. Way to win the war on terror, guys.