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Well, the maddening thing about the bombing in Pakistan is how perfectly happy the grinning hyenas of the War Party are to come out for so obviously disproportionate to the supposed gain. 18 innocent people were massacred in an attack that could have, in the very best case, by the government’s own claim, killed 4 top leaders. It’s one thing to claim that you can morally massacre, say, a half million civilians in firebombing and nuclear terrorism in order to save millions from death in an apocalyptic amphibious assault; I think that’s actually the height of immorality, but it’s an understandable vice. But it’s hard to explain what would make somebody think it’s OK to slaughter 18 innocents in order to get at most 4 of the guilty without simply resorting to the terms of madness and unhinged bloodlust.